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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Matthew
PhD in RL, building new ways of using RL + LLMs
Ian
Previously PhD student at Stanford, student researcher at Google Deepmind and Meta Reality Labs.
James
Founder exploring new ideas in un-sexy spaces.
Grey
Founder Fellow 2. Currently building Starlight, the financial OS for web3 teams 💫
Marc
Advising AI startup founding teams. Standing up an IB focused exclusively on AI, frontier & deep tech. Co-founder & CEO of General Magic, an Apple spin-off credited with creating the smartphone. Also a satellite company, climate & cleantech.
Deborah
Cofounder & CEO at Sparrow - the first high-tech, high-touch employee leave management solution making it simple for companies to provide employee leave throughout North America. We're making employee leave stress-free for companies like Figma, Plaid, and Headspace Health.
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.
Peter
I’m currently exploring web3. Previously I cofounded SBLY.com, a bootstrapped company that hit $90M in TR.
Greg
Previously at Dropbox, leading the teams for Mypy (static types for Python) and engineer collaboration tools. Before that Quora, Ksplice, Harvard math, and MIT computer science
Michael
building https://fieldworks.ai

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What our members do


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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