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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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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Sami
Creator of Echo Chess AI. I build strategy games using AI and Game Design.
Zachary
Ex-Msft AI PM who worked on Copilot for 2 years, quit to validate startup ideas - just launched Lovable for Chrome Extensions & now working on a new idea in stealth.
Waseem
I'm a cofounder of Pilot, a modern finance team offering the best bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. I'm an engineer by background and have cofounded and sold a couple of companies with friends I met while studying at MIT. In 2011, Ksplice was acquired by Oracle, and Zulip was acquired by Dropbox in 2014.
Joe
Joe is the Co-CEO and co-founder of Titan, building the first AI-native investment platform for everyday investors. Previously worked in strategy at McKinsey and investment banking at Goldman Sachs. A Wharton and Huntsman Program graduate, he blends deep financial expertise with a product-driven vision for modern wealth management
Zain
Engineer, AI researcher, designer, some hardware stuff too.
Drishan
I work on applications of machine learning to natural language. I am currently working on RL alignment techniques for LLMs + information retrieval.
Ross
I’m currently exploring human-in-the-loop AI systems at ROSNIK AI with my longtime friend Nick DiRienzo. In my prior life, I was Head of Product at Observe Inc and a PM at Splunk. In my spare time, you will find me brewing beer, riding my bike, and reading any sci-fi I can get my hands on.
Zorayr
I was one of the early engineers on Messenger and helped to grow it to billions of people; after Messenger, spent a few years as an Engineering Manager on various new products within Facebook including stories and teens pillars. I am an engineer with a PMs hat that loves to help people. Reach out if there is anything I can help with!
Noah
Noah is an applied AI lead at OpenAI, focused on turning frontier models into real-world impact. Previously co-founded Eureka and led product at Forward after starting out as a software engineer. Former South Park Commons fellow.
Hari
CEO at AbstractOps + GP at OperatorFund.dev. Love jamming on intersection between product / GTM; "API for X"; modeling the real world in a data structure. Fmr. COO at Forge, Consultant at BCG. Early stage investor at Notion, Mercury, Rippling, 70+ others.

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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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