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The best part of our Talent Mafia series? It doubles as a reunion for early employees. Huge thanks to Max Mullen, Ofek Lavian, and Praveen Chekuri 🤷🏽‍♂️ for dropping by SPC to share what they learned building Instacart and how it shaped Ascend and Forage.

Announcing the winners & finalists of the South Park Commons Gaming Hackathon! 🎮 This might be the funnest hackathon we’ve hosted at SPC. We only gave our hackers 24 hours and they delivered! Thanks again to our judges Brina Lee, Max Child 🌐, & Charles Niu🎲🧵

Buzzing from last night’s chat with Roblox CEO David Baszucki at South Park Commons. He took us through the ups/downs of building one of the world’s biggest gaming platforms, his personal journey , & the tech shifts he’s seen since the early internet. Full interview coming soon!

1/ Excited to host Jeyandran Venugopal at South Park Commons India for an exclusive session on Building for the Billion! We'll talk about how to win in the Indian consumer market. 🔗🧵

Demos > slides. Show don't tell. Those are the rules for South Park Commons Demo Faire. If you want to see what SPC founders are building (including some off the record demos), join us June 5th.

What's your theory of consciousness? Is AI like the iPhone or the atom bomb? How does sci-fi shape the future? We had A LOT of questions for Neal Stephenson Ken Liu Cyan Banister Joscha Bach at South Park Commons and I'm very excited to share what they had to say.

What unfolds when those who imagine the future sit across from those building it? In this special SPC panel, worlds converge. Sci-fi legends Neal Stephenson and Ken Liu join visionary investor Cyan Banister and researcher Joscha Bach to explore how narratives shape reality, how fiction

1/ What makes certain founders and ideas compelling? There's something powerful about examining the legibility of both the founder AND their idea. 🧵 on legibility and illegibility at -1.

Over 100 hackers are grinding away on some amazing projects at SPC's Curiosity Hackathon in Bangalore! Stay tuned for final demos... 💻

1/ Happening Soon: -1 to Meesho Meesho powers millions of small-town entrepreneurs and is fully reshaping the e-commerce landscape for Bharat. The Meesho story is interesting, gritty and a testament to Vidit Aatrey 's ambition

📣 New Gen has raised a $4.5M seed round as they build the future of AI commerce! Both Jonathan Arena & Adam Behrens knew brands would need to rapidly evolve their customer experience—or risk being left behind. Combining their extensive technical and design expertise,

Interviewing fellow 🇨🇦's is my favourite pastime. David Baszucki came by South Park Commons to share his story building Roblox into a 100m daily active user platform! Check out the full conversation in the links below!

In this episode of Minus One, SPC Principal Dylan Itzikowitz sits down with Roblox’s chief blocksmith to trace a minus one to zero prototype that evolved into a full blown digital economy, now serving more than 100M DAUs. (00:00) Trailer (01:06) $275M Fund III (01:56) Two-year "minus

Throwback to a talk between Elad Gil & Aditya Agarwal at our old office in South Park, SF: