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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Rui
Engineer and Researcher. Cofounder/CTO of Expedock - Forbes Under 30. Working on something new.
Sam
Building Sentience...
Dakota
Lifelong Midwesterner, currently living in Kansas City along with the wife and two pets (dog-Sunny, cat-Kit Cat). I'm passionate about building solutions with outcomes of healthier communities and people, which is what has led me to working in an endeavor that's aimed at helping to drive adoption of regenerative agriculture. (check out Rooted Ag) Beyond work, I love spending time in nature and observing, making warm connections with people, and listening to good music.
Brian
Brian is a software engineer at Stainless, previously at Anthropic where he helped launch Claude.ai and unify API infrastructure. He previously co-founded Kenchi and led key product lines at Stripe, including Stripe Connect.
Josh
CTO at Generally Intelligent, an AI research company focused building human-like intelligent systems. Angel investor. Always happy to help or chat about AI, ML, or anything I've worked on previously (crypto, VR, finance, manufacturing, gaming, etc)
Tom
ex-DeepMind researcher interested in interpretability, data curation & foundation models (especially in new domains)
Kevin
I'm working on an AI media company. Think Fox News / MSNBC but driven fully by AI, and distributed on modern platforms like TikTok. Previously, I started a web-scale crawler that I sold in 2022. I also do standup comedy and anything outdoors.
Shreepoorna
Shreepoorna S Rao, founder of Arctus Aerospace, IIT Madras alum. Leading innovation in high-altitude drones for defense and geospatial data, combining technical expertise with a mission to disrupt aerospace with cost-effective solutions.
Rob
Rob Haisfield is the cofounder of Websim, a platform for imagining alternate internets on the fly. His background is in behavioral product strategy, gamification, and tools for thought.
James
Founder exploring new ideas in un-sexy spaces.

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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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