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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Michael
I'm working with Bao Van to build a future of work startup, tackling skilled talent shortages. You can find me at a Barry's class or the newest trending TikTok restaurant.
Catherine
Catherine is a member of technical staff at Anthropic. Prior to that she was a senior program associate at Open Philanthropy and a software engineer at Google Brain and OpenAI. Previously: computational neuroscience (left PhD program with a master's degree), computer science, and psychology + cognitive science (MIT)
Anthony
BA, MSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge PhD Computational Astrophysics at Charles University in Prague (interrupted)
Erin
Erin Cafaro is a two-time Olympic gold medalist in rowing, winning with the U.S. women’s eight team at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games. She is one of the most decorated rowers in U.S. history.
Ani
Ani is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Orbital, building the ZoomInfo for companies selling to SMBs and midmarket. Previously led engineering at Cisco Meraki and held product and GTM roles at Polymail and Tivamo. Background in CS and business from Rice University.
Rajshekar
Building the non-invasive Neuralink at axionclick.com. 7+ yrs in HCI. Published 14 papers at top venues including CHI. 2 pending patents. Prev built AR/VR systems for surgical robots at Intuitive.
Keshav
Currently thinking about how people learn with AI; previously studied causal inference and machine learning at Stanford. Hacker at heart. Learning how to play squash and piano.
Zo
Liberal arts student turned AI engineer motivated about using technology to enable entrepreneurship. Spent ~3 years at Spotify working on generative audio and recommendation systems. Spent longer deciding on my favourite sushi. 🥢
Arpit
Arpit Garg is a product leader and entrepreneur focused on redefining preventive healthcare in India. With over a decade of experience in building and scaling user-first products, he is the Co-Founder of CENT AI, a next-generation healthcare startup
Aj
2nd time founder / Former head of ML at an AI startup (Hirefly) Build AI for eCommerce brands

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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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