South Park Commons is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and get from -1 to 0. We believe good ideas very rarely come about in isolation. We are the anti-incubator, a safe zone that promotes judgement-free exploration and development of new ideas. Our hope as a community is that members find their experience here to be an exposure to problems and perspectives beyond their own, transformational to lifelong learning, and nurturing a dimension of thoughtfulness and responsibility in their ambitions. Most of all, we hope it’s an environment that encourages diving off the deep end together and forming lifelong relationships and legacies on the way to building the next phase of our life’s work.
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Tomorrow, I'll be hosting Sasha Rush in South Park Commons's NYC for a lunch and learn :) He’s a professor at Cornell Tech interested in open-source NLP and deep learning and is also a researcher with Hugging Face (been there for ~5 years). Come swing by our space and meet him! h/t Carta
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Elastic & LangChain NYC Meetup last week! The night was chock-full of lightning talks from founders on practitioners on different topics - from high-accuracy agents, to productionizing RAG, and more. Special thanks to South Park Commons, Dylan Itzikowitz, and Jessica Garson for helping host this event 🙌
What are the biggest problems we need to solve in healthcare right now? How will generative AI affect the future of healthcare? Hear Neetu Rajpal, former CTO of Oscar Health, & Jake Sussman, Co-founder at Headway share their most honest takes about the healthcare industry below! TLDW: Imminent healthcare issues we need to solve, according to Neetu: - Point of service payments - Upfront appointment costs upon entrance into healthcare facilities - Transparency about which facilities to choose for specific procedures - Easily accessible chat functions, such as: “Is this covered in my plan?”
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Zuck rarely does talks like these because he has a startup mindset at a $trillion company—he’s busy building! The chance to hear from him live South Park Commons is a BFD. If you want to join, apply & keep an eye out for upcoming hackathon news. We're biased toward builders.
It's true! Zuck is coming to SPC for a rare IRL talk moderated by Ruchi Sanghvi. The best way to guarantee a spot? Apply for SPC membership! The next best way? Keep an eye out for news about an upcoming builder event—participants will also get to join the talk...🦙
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Principal @ South Park Commons | 🇨🇦 Supporting Exceptional Early Stage Founders Globally 🌎
Cats out of the bag! South Park Commons is very excited to announce that Mark Zuckerberg will be joining us for an off the record chat with Ruchi Sanghvi at SPC SF on Aug 6th! It's a rare chance to hear from one of the great founders of our time on how he kept a -1 to 0 mindset while building Meta This is an amazing opp for SPC members and alumni who will be guaranteed access. Guest space is extremely limited. Apply to attend at the link in comments
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I’m very excited to announce that Mark Zuckerberg will be joining us at South Park Commons for a talk on Aug 6th! It's a rare chance to hear from one of the great founders of our time on how he kept a -1 to 0 mindset while building Meta If you know me well, you know that I wont shy away from asking Mark the tough questions 😊. SPC members and alumni are all guaranteed access so guest space is extremely limited. Apply to attend at the link: https://lu.ma/mz-spc
Why launch a company in a "dying" industry like publishing? Jessica Lessin is a firm believer that "the desire and thirst for information is very, very strong, and very, very powerful." Hear what Jessica Lessin, Founder of The Information, had to say when she stopped by SPC about the importance of good journalism & and why we should be optimistic about the future of startups in news & information:
As part of SF Deep Tech Week, join SPC and Symphonic Labs for an hour of product demos from companies working on the future of interfaces. From silent speech to robotics, we will get a live look at a range of new interfaces. https://bit.ly/45tu9ho Some teams who will be demoing include Augmental, Symphonic Labs, Neurosity Email events-admin@southparkcommons.com if you are interested in presenting.
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Principal @ South Park Commons | 🇨🇦 Supporting Exceptional Early Stage Founders Globally 🌎
Community lunches are a pillar for our founders at South Park Commons. This Thursday, we're hosting Ben Braverman (former CRO at Flexport & founding partner at Saga Ventures) for a Lunch & Learn about his experience leading sales teams to $1.8B/year in revenue. We're opening a few sessions to high potential members interested in joining SPC! Apply in the link in comments for this week's Lunch & Learn! Thanks to our friends at Carta for partnering with us on these!