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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Franck
Engineering leader with deep expertise in Web3 and large scale infrastructure. - VP of eng. at a DeFi crypto startup (Origin Protocol). Built smart contracts handling hundreds of millions of dollars. - Built search infra from ground up at Dropbox pre-IPO as tech lead. - Founded and managed the team that built the first Content ID system at YouTube pre Google acquisition. - Early engineer at PayPal, TLM for the Merchant facing engineering team
Mel
Building the AI copilot for medication prior authorization. Previously Product at Canvas Medical and Design at IDEO.
Herrick
Interested in broadening access to impactful technology. Previously built things at Affirm, Supermove, and Qualified.
Xin
I enjoy working at early-stage companies to have a bigger impact. Having experienced a few mildly successful exits at Canadian startups, I am taking the leap to become a founder and start building something exciting.
Nischal
always striving to do my life's best work
Alex
Alex is the co-founder of Playbook.com, a cloud storage and collaboration tool for creatives. Before that, he studied at CMU and was an engineer at Addepar and Opendoor.
Sanjeev
Co-founder, coinvent.ai
Kun
Serial Entrepreneur, Autonomy Enthusiast, autonomous driving and robotics background.
Tong
Co-Founder & CEO of hologram.xyz. Previously 0x (Matcha), robotics, Penn, and freelance photography.
Fangchang
Passionate about computer vision, machine learning, and 3D. Previously leading a research team at Apple. PhD in robotics from MIT.

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What our members do


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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