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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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.
Ilan
Co-Founder @ Strut Motors
Deon
Deon is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Forethought, the leading generative AI platform for customer support automation. Previously served as CEO, scaling the company over seven years. An early engineer at Pure Storage and Dropbox, he brings deep technical expertise to building AI-first enterprise products.
Aman
I'm a licensed pilot and love flying Cessnas in the NorCal area. I've got about 10 years of experience working on 0 to 1 projects at Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Meta's internal innovation lab.
Charlie
Currently building Pulley to streamline construction permitting. Previously a founder, PM, and engineer at eero, Oasis Labs, and Amazon. Passionate about software, cities, and solving messy infrastructure problems.
Deanna
Deanna leads Customer Marketing at Writer. Previously, she was head of Product Marketing at Stripe and VP of Marketing at Wealthfront.
Aloke
https://mecheng.iisc.ac.in/project/aloke-kumar/
Achyut
Current: Working on making data more accessible in web3. Previously: Machine Learning at RelyanceAI; Data Scientist at Amazon, PayPal. Love experimenting with productivity hacks
Anthony
BA, MSc Natural Sciences at University of Cambridge PhD Computational Astrophysics at Charles University in Prague (interrupted)
Remi
Remi is currently a web3 founder fellow at SPC. Previously, Remi worked as a software engineer at Google and Microsoft, was the founding member of a Defi protocol (Parallel Finance - raised seed and Series A), and has a complementary background in product management and venture capital.

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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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