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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Naman
Engineer. Curious. Recently did my 5K run, soon 10K. Vipaasna practitioner. code, books, paint & fun. Recently cofounded and was CEO of DoWhileAI (Sequoia Surge9). ex-Coinbase, Goldman and Walmart. IIT Roorkee 2017. ICPC Regionals. Explore hardware. Want to explore acting!
Vinayak
I am a scientist by training so I like to ask lot of questions and I am a fan from first principles thinking. I loved programming since I was 5 and have built algorithms and systems working collaboratively with biologist, chemist, scientists and automation engineers to reliably scale measurement of biological systems (mostly human DNA) and predicting propensity for disease. Outside work, I love the outdoors and playing and following team sports.
Max
Tool maker, game dev, and teacher. Now: Websim, Past at Sentry, Google Fuchsia,
Bharat
Engineering leader & distributed systems expert. Ex-VP Eng at Dream11, scaled teams & systems powering $800M biz with 260M+ users. IIT Delhi grad 2nd time founder, building in stealth. Passionate about tech, scale, and creating high-impact products.
Fangchang
Passionate about computer vision, machine learning, and 3D. Previously leading a research team at Apple. PhD in robotics from MIT.
Aaron
Building crypto stealth co. Former: Partner, @lightspeedvp; Founder, @livingsocial
Phil
Co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to deploy and serve machine learning models in production. Previously co-founded Shape (acquired by Reflektive) and worked on ML at Gumroad. Holds a PhD in mathematics from the University of Sydney.
Matthew
PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs
Kyle
Founder - Inflight.co, prev design at Airchat, Facebook, Tinder.
Hamza
Working on potrerolabs.xyz, a start-up to empower creators and their communities. Previously engineering at Facebook. Love to go skiing, camping and do other outdoor shenanigans.

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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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