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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Lakshman
I'm one of those true believers in crypto you might've read about. Building a 10 year career in the space. Currently focused on building out Ethereum 2.0 at the Ethereum Foundation. I write here: https://www.lakshmansankar.com/#/
Sashank
Language Modeling Scientist @ Apple; Previously studied at Georgia Tech & IIT Bombay. Love to go deep on food, coffee, & AI.
Purvanshi
Building Lica (https://lica.world/), text to video creation | applied scientist
Eric
Mobile apps
Pete
Pete is the co-founder of Swoop.
Kunal
Head of Product + Design at Rilla (prev. Founding Engineer). Penn '22
Aloke
https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/project/aloke-kumar/
Zain
Founder of Eureka, a healthcare company helping patients with chronic conditions get control over their symptoms.
Marcel
Marcel is the founder of Apache Impala, which he started when he joined Cloudera in 2011 and for which he was the architect/TL until 2017. Before Cloudera, he worked on database technology at Google and several startups. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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

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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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