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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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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Vinay
Building something new in Web3. Previously startup founder, Product @ Facebook. Manchester United fan and Pizzaterian for life.
Yash
I love science and technology. I have previously worked at Spotnana (as founding engineer) and Google (in search, research teams). Currently I am working on an B2C startup in AI space.
Yuguang
A serial entrepreneur in robotics building diverse innovations with top 5% teams for 10+ years
Nagendra
Nagendra is a technical guy, who loves building products. Earlier he worked with Facebook and lead the execution of messenger platform. Currently working on Helix - Support for Modern Teams, powered by AI, assisted by community.
David
Founder of Shark Tooth - a Biotech developing a treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 1A, which my son was diagnosed with 1.5 yrs ago. I'm also an angel investor & a SaaS startup advisor. Previously I was the 1st GTM leader at Notion & Typeform.
Brandon
Exploring AI x Gaming ex: 100Thieves, AngelList
Gabor
3x startup founder with exits to Google and Twitter. Formerly: Director for consumer product incubator at Google, PM, and SWE. Things I like: Vercel, Supabase, PyTorch, Next.js (with reservations), and contributing to AI cookbooks on Github.
Landon
former head of research @ character.ai now building in consumer ai
Jingwei
Building withpanorama.com. Formerly Staff Eng / TLM @ Lyft, Cash App. Spent thousands of hours reading, researching, and applying practices on group dynamics and individual psychology. Meditate a lot. Based in SF, sometimes in LA.
Ram
You can call me Ram. Built & led teams across Google, Apple & Meta. Expertise in Firmware, OS, Wireless, Android. Early stage engineering experience as well.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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