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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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.
Kshitij
Co-founder of Orb, building billing infrastructure for modern software teams. Previously led real-time infrastructure at Asana. Studied computer science and philosophy at Caltech and was part of the South Park Commons founder fellowship.
Sara
Previously, I managed product & engineering at Scale AI, where I worked on recommendations, trust & safety, data quality and image/video labeling. Before that, I worked at Facebook & Twitter, and studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon.
Avery
Co-founder @symphoniclabs, UWaterloo Eng 24 prev @tesla, Building neural interafaces for silent speech
Bharat
Engineering leader & distributed systems expert. Ex-VP Eng at Dream11, scaled teams & systems powering $800M biz with 260M+ users. IIT Delhi grad 2nd time founder, building in stealth. Passionate about tech, scale, and creating high-impact products.
Ben
Co-Founder, CEO at Transcend, the data infrastructure powering your privacy rights at your favorite brands. Formerly Computer Science at Harvard.
Geoff
Founder of Apollo GraphQL, MeteorJS, Monument, and others
Daniel
CEO and co-founder of DoubleLoop, helping product teams build metrics-driven strategies. Previously led product at MDsave and GoodGuide (acquired by UL), with earlier roles at CBS Interactive and CNET. Brings two decades of experience in product leadership and data-informed development.
Shannon
Looking for the main quest. Prev: Researcher on geopolitics of AI at GovAI and Oxford & before that: PM at Scale AI for autonomous vehicle data. Oxford MBA, Berkeley Development Econ & Data Science. Based in SF, often found in London and Shanghai.
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.

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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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380 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA
© 2026 All rights reserved.