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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Pete
Creator of Coinbase Wallet and Cipher Browser, and currently Engineering Lead for USDC. Advises projects across web3 including Polygon, Family, and Tribes. Ask ChatGPT
Antonio
Built some stuff (YC, Facebook, Branch, etc.), wrote some stuff ('Chaos Monkeys'). Currently building Spindl.xyz.
Tim
Founder and CEO of Zulip, a powerful team chat platform for distributed engineering teams. Previously co-founded Ksplice (acquired by Oracle) and led major infrastructure projects at Dropbox. MIT-trained engineer with deep expertise in building robust, developer-centric systems.
Tom
Tom is the co-founder of Anthropic. Previously led engineering for GPT-3 at OpenAI, scaling it from 1.5B to 170B parameters, and contributed to foundational work on RLHF.
Ashton
2x Olympic gold medalist in decathlon. Mechanical engineer. Nike R&D.
Chris
Co-founder and former CTO of Planet Labs, where he led spacecraft and constellation design for one of the world’s largest Earth imaging networks. Previously a Space Mission Architect at NASA Ames, where he developed low-cost spacecraft and led commercialization efforts including the Phonesat Project.
Avichal
Rui
Engineer and Researcher. Cofounder/CTO of Expedock - Forbes Under 30. Working on something new.
Qianyuan
Nirva Labs CTO, building AI wearable hardware for mental wellbeing. Ex-Meta SWE manager.
Amit
Co-founder of Luma AI, building cutting-edge tools at the intersection of computer vision and 3D content. Previously led camera and systems engineering at Apple.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
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