2026 – Present
Owner · Mountain Bike Specialists
Durango bike shop — service, retail, team, community.
Elliott Saslow
Durango, Colorado.
I run Mountain Bike Specialists, a downtown bike shop. Before that I moved through engineering physics, computational neuroscience, and data science, then spent years in AI and blockchain while both were still mostly specialist conversations. I tend to get interested in complicated systems and stay with them until I understand how they work.
Currently
Mountain Bike Specialists
In 2026 I bought Mountain Bike Specialists, a longtime shop on Main Avenue in Durango.
Most days are about the ordinary work of running it: service, inventory, staffing, vendors, customers, events, and keeping the place feeling like itself while we try new things — memberships, better e-commerce, clearer merchandising, more community in the shop.
I’ve ridden here for years and coach youth mountain biking. The shop is connected to that, not a side quest from a tech career.
mountainbikespecialists.comPath
How I got here
- 2013–2017 Engineering Physics CU Boulder
- 2015–2018 Computational Neuroscience Donaldson Lab
- ~2018–2020 Data Science & ML Applied modeling
- 2020–2023 AI education & product Udacity
- 2023–2025 AI & blockchain Multiverse, Allora
- 2026– Bike shop Durango
Work
A few things
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Owner-operator of a specialty bike shop in downtown Durango.
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Co-author on a paper identifying neuronal populations active during partner approach in monogamous prairie voles. Built analysis for calcium imaging data.
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Helped large organizations — including federal and defense partners — build AI capabilities when that was still a fairly specialist ask. Later product-owned a new offering to about $1.2M ARR in seven months.
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Enterprise work on decentralized AI prediction systems — machine learning and blockchain in one stack, for organizations exploring that space before it had a settled playbook.
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Cross-chain liquidity tooling for fragmented on-chain markets.
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LED helmet replica driven by Teensy boards. Built because it seemed fun.
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Lead coach for youth mountain bike programs (Shredders & Devo) in Durango.
Experience
Roles
2024 – 2025
Enterprise Account Executive · Allora Labs
Decentralized AI prediction systems and enterprise blockchain applications.
2023 – 2024
Account Executive · Multiverse
AI and emerging-tech training for enterprises. First deal in a net-new business line.
2022 – 2023
Principal Solutions Architect & Product Owner · Udacity
AI/blockchain learning pathways; new product to ~$1.2M ARR in seven months.
Otherwise
Mostly outside
I coach kids’ mountain biking, ride a lot, and get oddly absorbed in whatever I’m building — software, a shop process, a helmet, a pricing problem. Same habit, different surfaces.