Silicon Valley’s South Park Commons to launch India outpost with Binny Bansal
Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies. While Sanghvi is known for being the first woman engineer at Facebook, Agarwal was chief technology officer at file-sharing company Dropbox till 2018. Sanghvi went on to launch South Park Commons (SPC), named after a San Francisco neighbourhood, in 2016 as a collective of engineers, founders and researchers.
Since then, SPC has grown from being a learning group to a platform that has raised two funds to back entrepreneurs with very early stage ideas. Having expanded to New York, SPC is now eyeing India even as it is in the process of launching its third fund. Sanghvi and Agarwal spoke to Samidha Sharma and detailed their plans for India with Flipkart cofounder Binny Bansal. Edited excerpts:
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Sanghvi: At SPC, the initial group was 10 people, and the idea was we would study topics that were on the cutting edge of technology. This kind of a learning group really resonated with a lot of people in Silicon Valley. Quickly we grew from 10 to 30 people.
Was it purely academic in nature back then?
Sanghvi: We all had intentions of wanting to start something, but we were still learning. If you think you're going to backpack to the base of Everest and meditate and suddenly have this
