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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Rishi
Rishi is a software engineer at Airtable. Before that, he was the first employee at Zulip, an open source team chat application.
Tremaine
Tre is the co-founder of Vori, an OS for the grocery industry. Previously, he was co-founder at Greo (YCS17), a video social network for meaningful conversations (Top 40 on app store). Previously design @ Google & Mozilla, and built a nationally recognized education non-profit.
Nikhil
Love building software. AI/ML Engineering Leader. Worked on a team at Apple which built RAG at Web Scale. Have worked on natural language understanding for Siri, Cortana, Bing, Kinect.
Abhinav
Abhinav is a builder with experience with Marketplaces, Search, and Distributed systems & ML Infra.
Asad
Asad is the CEO and co-founder of Jams, building new ways for people to connect and collaborate online. Previously VP of Creators and Monetization at Meta, where he led teams empowering the next generation of creators. He brings over a decade of experience at the intersection of product, content, and community.
Elsie
building in ai for content evaluation
Jaclyn
Jaclyn worked at Alphabet for 7 years in a variety of operational roles. She helped launch Google Helpouts (a consumer marketplace to deliver expertise over live video) and most recently worked at CapitalG helping portfolio companies scale.
Mac
Hi, I'm Mac 👋. I'm actively exploring problems at the intersection of AI and American dynamism. My inbox is always open and I'm looking forward to meeting all of you!
Ilan
Co-Founder @ Strut Motors
Aaron
Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial

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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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