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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Pierre
Hi, I’m Pierre Ettori, a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years of experience building and scaling Cloud and SaaS products. I’ve led product and go-to-market efforts at companies like Google and Temporal, and I was the CEO and co-founder of Styra, creators of the Open Policy Agent (OPA) project. I was also part of Nicira’s journey to acquisition by VMware. As a former professional athlete turned tech leader, I bring energy, focus, and a passion for helping businesses adopt transformative technologies to build better products, faster.
Wei
Robotics decision making and software architect. Ex Apple SPG, currently building general purpose humanoid robots.
Jonny
Jonny is the CEO of Muon Space, leading a team building climate-focused satellite technology. Previously held senior engineering roles at Lyft (Level 5 autonomy), Google, and Terra Bella (formerly Skybox Imaging), where he led the design and launch of multiple Earth observation satellites.
Amir
Amir is a co-founder of Baseten, building infrastructure to serve and scale machine learning applications. Previously led data platform engineering at Clover Health and was Head of Engineering at Gumroad.
Joshua
Building Vectorsmith, a new kind of model and vector store for truly intelligent search. Previously 9.5 years at Asana, prior to that a lot of music.
Adam
Previously built data platforms & products at Stripe and Bridgewater
Zain
Engineer, AI researcher, designer, some hardware stuff too.
Apurv
Apurv Mehra is a Computer Engineer and Researcher. Past Microsoft Research and IIITD
Thomas
Neurotech / BCI. Working with Anthony Kirilov and Nicole Dobreva :) Prev: co-founded Chai, quant trading/gambling, astro at Cambridge.
Eric
Mobile apps

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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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