South Park Commons
South Park Commons is a community of technologists and builders dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and figure out what's next—or as we call it, go from -1 to 0. We believe great ideas very rarely come about in isolation. The SPC Fund invests in companies that emerge from our members' explorations, ensuring the community's longevity and supporting the next stage of our founders' journeys.www.southparkcommons.com
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Sep 24, 2026
James CliftGUEST
for something called the Founder Fellowship.
James CliftGUEST
So that was South Park Commons, their fund.
James CliftGUEST
It was a deal that looked too good to be true.
James CliftGUEST
It was like, hey, we'll give you 400K before you have an idea.
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James CliftGUEST
And to be fair, like both of us were probably not that good at building teams then anyway.
James CliftGUEST
So like it wouldn't have gone well if we tried to hire a bunch of people.
Julian WeisserHOST
So when you were solo founding Durable, if I understand the timeline correctly, you joined South Park Commons.
Julian WeisserHOST
You were doing that solo, right? You didn't have
Mark JacobsteinHOST
I'm Mark Jacobson.
Mark JacobsteinHOST
I'm one of the partners here at South Park Commons, but for today's conversation, I'm also a former Guardant Health employee, and I used to work for Helmy.
Mark JacobsteinHOST
Um, have a lot of, uh, very fond memories as, uh, he was helping to build what has become one of the canonical companies in the history of molecular diagnostics, arguably the most important company in molecular diagnostics, uh, probably ever.
Mark JacobsteinHOST
For those of you who don't know, very briefly, Helmy is now the co-CEO and chairman of Guardant Health, a twenty billion dollar molecular diagnostics company.
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Mark JacobsteinHOST
Well, thank you.
Mark JacobsteinHOST
I'm gonna open it up now to, to other questions, um, but I would be remiss...
Mark JacobsteinHOST
So for those of you who don't-- Steven is a South Park Commons member.
Mark JacobsteinHOST
He's also a former Guardant employee.
Sam HallGUEST
And so it kind of like, you know, that was sort of the, the, how it turned into like a real company, but it's very much just like motivated by, by me saying like, Oh wow, like this is something I really love.
Sam HallGUEST
Like I, how do I keep doing it? Like, how do I, how do I take it to the next level? Did you think about applying for accelerators and stuff like that? I did kind of skip over a little bit of a detail, which is that there's this thing in San Francisco called South Park Commons.
Sam HallGUEST
And South Park Commons is basically the TLDR.
Sam HallGUEST
It's kind of like a YC-style accelerator.
Sam HallGUEST
However, around that, they also have this thing.