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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Yash
Drummer, cryptomaniac, and big fan of doggos. Building in web3 with andrew duca. Ex-robinhood, ex-cto of duffl (yc w20), kleiner perkins fellow '21
Raveeshu
Raveeshu | Ex-Dropbox/Twitter/Microsoft ML eng | Built Search&Answer for Dash, scaled Twitter Timeline ML to billions | Now exploring how to fix broken education & trust systems in India through personalized learning & trust network
Ben
Ben is the co-founder and CTO at Bevel. Previously he worked on pricing infrastructure at Opendoor. Studied Networked & Social Systems Engineering at UPenn and is passionate about building data-informed, user-first products.
Dilan
CEO @ System2 - on a mission to bring a fitness coach to every human. Obsessed with personal growth & futurism. Serial founder, Investor, YC08, CTO Scoopler (aq Google), CS, Physics @ MIT
Ryan
Hedge Fund Investor -> Crypto Founder -> ?
Shahmeer
Interested in crypto/ML/climate. Engineer. Was prev. at Robinhood (2018-2022)
Jameson
I build companies that make complex things simple. I'm the Co-Founder of Strut Motors and former founder of Fantasmo, acquired by TIER Mobility. I love the intersection of emerging technologies, applied research and consumer.
Aymeric
Engineer. Co-founder, Pascal (SPC F25) Co-founder, Ledger (YC W17)
Ben
Co-founder & CTO of Mesa. Prev: YC S24, Census, Microsoft
Yusuf
I like to build time machines! I'm a software engineer with experience computer vision research and developer tools. I'm currently founding NatML, building cross-platform machine learning and media tools for developing interactive software.

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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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