Great ideas rarely emerge from isolation

South Park Commons is a community of technologists ideating and validating what to build next. We believe this shouldn’t be done alone. Our members range from exited founders and highly-cited researchers to new graduates and first-time entrepreneurs. What unites us is ambition, ability, and a mutual commitment to helping each other navigate -1 to 0.

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OUR Members

A Modern Day Xerox PARC


We focus on highly technical builders in the -1 to 0. Over the last decade, we have had 1,000 members join us to start companies, pursue research, and work on other ambitious projects.

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Fangchang
Founder and CEO at Nuance Labs. Previously research scientist and manager at Apple. PhD in Robotics and ML from MIT.
Clarence
Unit21
Tyler
Founder of Perfectly Imperfect, Ex-Meta Engineer, College Dropout, Occasional DJ, and Open-Source Developer.
Sandor
Humanoids In The Wild | Prev. MIT CSAIL, Tesla Optimus
Alex
Founder and CEO of Perl, focused on redefining search for the consumer internet. Previously built Lounge (acquired by Mozilla) and Oneminute, with early support from Greylock and the creators of Bebo and MySpace. Writes TLDR intros, a go-to newsletter for early-stage consumer founders and investors. Member of South Park Commons.
Nick
Co-founder at Mirage Security, the Human Security company. Engineering alum of Modern Health (A->D) and Optimizely (B->D). Deep experience in cloud infrastructure, developer platforms and APIs, AI, distributed systems, and engineering leadership.
Kaiyuan
Exploring disaster and emergency response, let's chat! Worked in Insurance, let's chat!
Sanjay
I like playing basketball and poker. Talk to me about hiring contractors / consultants for your startup.
William
Currently exploring the intersection of generative audio and artists rights. Previously, I helped build Woven Science, an evergreen fund and venture studio supporting a portfolio of 25 mental health companies. xGoogle, xFulbright. Before that spent too much time at Google. I enjoy working in spaces between art and science, and spend spare time reading, writing, surfing, and skiing.
Arman
Passionate about building a company that has significant social and economic impact. Right now I'm actively exploring the implications of a world where AI-generated content dominate the web and what it would look like the authenticate human artifacts (namely text).

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Our members have started 250+ companies, including several unicorns. Others have become core contributors to leading research organizations, open-source software projects, and academic institutions.

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