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South Park Commons
Software Development
San Francisco, California 12,530 followers
You only get a few shots at building your life’s work.
About us
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.
- Website
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http://www.southparkcommons.com/
External link for South Park Commons
- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
Locations
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Primary
27 S Park St
San Francisco, California 94107, US
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650 Broadway
Floor 5
New York, NY 10012, US
Employees at South Park Commons
Updates
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For our second Minus One episode, Ruchi Sanghvi & Aditya Agarwal talked to Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, for the inside story of leading during the financial crisis and what it takes to build an enduring firm.
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👇 👇 👇 Last chance to apply to join the South Park Commons x InfraNYC HH with Megan Reynolds, me, & 200 of NYC's best engineer leaders
Are you building an infra software startup in NYC? Join the https://infra.nyc/ community of 200 founders, operators and engineering leaders for drinks and pizza on 7/31 🍻🍕 Apply to join us here - https://lu.ma/08qw671d 🚀 Regulars from Datadog MongoDB Vantage Knock PlanetScale Cockroach Labs Convex Gitpod +++ Hosted by our good friends South Park Commons Dylan Itzikowitz 🫶 Can���t wait to meet the new faces!
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Join us on August 12th to welcome back SPC alum and Cognition co-founder Scott Wu for what's sure to be an excellent -1 talk. How did Scott go from gold medal competitive coder to founding one of the most exciting AI startups? RSVP to find out! https://lu.ma/scott-wu-spc
-1 to Cognition with Scott Wu · Luma
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Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Ryan at South Park Commons on the past, present, and future of NYC tech. As "the Godfather of NYC tech", Kevin took MongoDB & DoubleClick public, alongside founding Zola, Business Insider, Pearl Health Rue Gilt Groupe & dozens more via his firm AlleyCorp! For those who couldn't make it, we'll be sharing clips of the amazing insights he shared over the coming weeks!
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It “may not be your fault, but it is your problem.” Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor & its follow-up, Radical Respect, discussed the intricacies of building collaborative company culture, upstanding management systems & avoiding the trap of so-called “great intentions” with founders at SPC:
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We’re excited to launch Minus One, a podcast about the squiggly stage of life when you have to figure out what’s next and go from -1 to 0. Hosted by Aditya Agarwal and Jonathan Brebner, each week you’ll hear about the winding journeys people take on their path to greatness. To start, we spoke with 2x Olympic Gold Medalist (and SPC alum) Ashton Eaton, OLY about his -1 journey. Listen wherever you get your podcasts- Apple: https://lnkd.in/d4VYwsmP Spotify: https://lnkd.in/dvCw-3VV Youtube: https://lnkd.in/dHecWc8Q
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A popular piece of advice is to find your passion and do what you love. This is usually the case for athletes who compete at the professional level. The issue with having a career as professional athlete is that at some point, your body can’t perform at a high level anymore and you’re forced to do something new. For most athletes I’ve talked to this transition to what’s next is super uncomfortable and scary. Many get depressed. Was kind of my experience as well. I think the reason is because we come from a career where the plan is straightforward. The objectives are clear. Progress is measurable. There is a team of support. Then it sort of all goes away. You’re kind of on your own, with no clear objective or plan. And you have no training to handle this. That’s where a place and team like South Park Commons comes in; everyone there is high performing in their field, driven and curious and open to figuring it out, together. I share some of my thoughts in this podcast. https://lnkd.in/gmiujZD4
Minus One: Ashton Eaton, Olympic Glory & What Comes Next on Apple Podcasts
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Last night I (South Park Commons) partnered with my friends at Lazer Technologies & Venture Commercial to host our second founder poker night with 40+ players at LUME studios in NYC. We will continue to find unique venues for these games. Hit me up if you'd like to play in the next one!
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Ready to build with the latest models of Meta Llama 3.1? Last call to register for the SPC-Meta Llamathon happening August 2nd-4th. Join us to innovate with this new model and compete for the grand prize! Register here: https://lnkd.in/g9KwE-ND
Starting today, open source is leading the way. Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models yet. Today we’re releasing a collection of new models including our long awaited 405B. Llama 3.1 delivers stronger reasoning, a larger 128K context window & improved support for 8 languages including English — among other improvements. Details in the full announcement ➡️ https://go.fb.me/hvuqhb Download the models ➡️ https://go.fb.me/11ffl7 We evaluated performance across 150+ benchmark datasets across a range of languages — in addition to extensive human evaluations in real-world scenarios. Trained on >16K NVIDIA H100 GPUs, Llama 3.1 405B is the industry leading open source foundation model and delivers state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models in general knowledge, steerability, math, tool use and multilingual translation. We’ve also updated our license to allow developers to use the outputs from Llama models — including the 405B — to improve other models for the first time. We’re excited about how synthetic data generation and model distillation workflows with Llama will help to advance the state of AI. As Mark Zuckerberg shared this morning, we have a strong belief that open source will ensure that more people around the world have access to the benefits and opportunities of AI and that’s why we continue to take steps on the path for open source AI to become the industry standard. With these releases we’re setting the stage for unprecedented new opportunities and we can’t wait to see the innovation our newest Llama models will unlock across all levels of the AI community.