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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Sam
Building creativity for LLMs
Arseniy
Arseniy is the co-founder of Moai Cash.
Jonathan
Jon is a founder and design leader with 15 years of experience building products and managing teams. He has led design at Facebook, Cruise, and Patreon. He co-founded Harvard's design conference and is currently a design advisor to several seed-stage co's.
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.
Shawn
Co Founder / CTO @ Foam Former early engineer @ Yelp, Reddit, Everlane and Patreon and Affirm.
Jonathan
Jonathan is the Head of Design at Eigen Labs and co-founder of VectorDAO, working at the intersection of crypto, design, and product. Previously led design teams at Coinbase.
Luis
Luis F. Voloch is the CEO / cofounder of jiminihealth.com, where they are developing clinically integrated LLMs for psychotherapy. He is also an AI researcher and lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches about management and entrepreneurship topics in data science and AI heavy companies, and where they differ from traditional software companies. Luis is also the cofounder of Immunai, an AI-driven cancer immunotherapy biotech company based out of NYC. They develop cutting edge technologies at the intersection of AI, genomics, big data, and immunology for developing immunotherapies. Immunai has over 140 people in NYC and other sites, and have raised over $300M and are valued at over $1B.
Joe
Joe is building the co-pilot for in-app monetization. Previously, he led product at Epic!, world's #1 reading app for kids. He was the first employee at Toppr.com and led product from inception to acquisition.
Jonathan
Previously worked in engineering at Y Combinator, Checkr, and Penny (acq Credit Karma). Exploring on-chain data infrastructure for crypto protocols & dapps.
Leah
Leah was the engineering leader for Slack's Enterprise products, building out Grid and growing the team 10x. Prior to that she co-founded zumper.com and worked at Google as an engineer and analyst.

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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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