Silicon Couloir

10/19/2026

Join us for our next free Noontime Knowledge THIS WEDNESDAY!

Everyone’s heard the AI pitch by now: faster, smarter, fixes everything overnight. We’re more interested in the quieter side. Used well, AI can handle the prep and follow-up in the background so you can give your full attention to the people you work with.

Join Moonbird Intel for a free workshop on using AI to remember what matters to each client, understand them better, and recognize when automation starts to feel cold. You’ll leave with one or two places to start this week, and a clear sense of where to keep your hands on the wheel.

📅 Wed, Oct 21, 12–1:30 pm | 📍 Teton County Rec Center
Registration is free and required. Register here: https://form.jotform.com/262376722827061

10/18/2026

Join a high-performing team and make a real impact for Teton founders. Silicon Couloir is seeking a detail-oriented, thoughtful & enthusiastic team member with strong organizational abilities & willingness to learn. This full-time position will support organizational capacity & growth through operational, office management & administration. For full details please visit siliconcouloir.com/careers. Applications open until October 28.

10/16/2026

It took A.J. Cargill three attempts just to reach the summit of the Grand Teton. Then she skied it on telemark gear, the first woman ever to do so.

That story, from Angus Thuermer’s WyoFile profile this week, is the best description of entrepreneurship I’ve read in a while. A.J. won the 1997 women’s world free-skiing title for a fifth of the men’s prize money, spent 20 years on ski patrol, and earned her place in a scene that didn’t make room for women.

“You’ve got to get back up and try it again to succeed around here,” she said of the Tetons. Any founder will recognize that.

Now she’s bringing the same persistence to Alpine Revival, her cashmere ski sweater company. Last month it won the Bob Arndt Community Caretaker award at Pitch Day, and A.J. is a participant in our TEAMS mentoring program.

Read the full profile: https://wyofile.com/the-mountain-elite-wyoming-mountains-forged-a-j-cargill-into-a-stylish-ski-champion/

Moving from the Midwest as a child, she had to catch up with the mountain lifestyle and a culture that didn’t always treat women well.

10/15/2026

Everyone’s heard the AI pitch by now: faster, smarter, fixes everything overnight. We’re more interested in the quieter side. Used well, AI can handle the prep and follow-up in the background so you can give your full attention to the people you work with.

Join Moonbird Intel for a free workshop on using AI to remember what matters to each client, understand them better, and recognize when automation starts to feel cold. You’ll leave with one or two places to start this week, and a clear sense of where to keep your hands on the wheel.

📅 Wed, Oct 21, 12–1:30 pm | 📍 Teton County Rec Center
Registration is free and required. Register here: https://form.jotform.com/262376722827061

10/14/2026

Want to help Teton founders build what's next? Join our high-performing team. Silicon Couloir is seeking a detail-oriented, thoughtful & enthusiastic team member with strong organizational abilities & willingness to learn. This full-time position will support organizational capacity & growth through operational, office management & administration. For full details please visit siliconcouloir.com/careers. Applications open until October 28.

10/08/2026

Pitch Day looks like one evening on stage, but it's the end of a summer's worth of work. Thank you to Jasmine Hall and the Jackson Hole News&Guide for telling the whole story of our 15th annual Pitch Day.

Stephen Elias of WyoDynamics, from Cody, took the Panelist Choice Award for producing natural astaxanthin in shipping containers on Wyoming wellpads.

Orion Bellorado of Roots Kitchen & Cannery won Audience Choice, with votes from neighbors who've been eating his jam for a decade.

A.J. Cargill of Alpine Revival earned the Bob Arndt Community Caretaker Award and the Dreamers and Doers Award for her performance cashmere mountain knitwear.

Cody Hamilton of Visual Engineering and Tyler Bass of EstateScribe rounded out this year's incredible finalists.

Our selection committee, 20+ business coaches and judges gave more than 140 hours to this program. Thank you for showing up for Wyoming founders.

Read the article: https://www.siliconcouloir.com/news

Pictured, left to right: A.J. Cargill, Stephen Elias, Tyler Bass, Cody Hamilton, Orion Bellorado and Executive Director Rob Kellogg.

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10/08/2026

From Service to Startup. Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Virginian on Monday for our latest Chance Meetings panel.

Todd Hanna, Matt Adkins and Eric Bressler shared how their military careers shaped the way they build, lead, and serve. The conversation covered the skills that carry over from uniform to business, including discipline, adaptability, and a commitment to mission, along with the challenges that don't come with a playbook.

Thank you to our panelists for sharing their stories and to The Virginian for hosting us. We'll see you at the next Chance Meetings. our December 7th Holiday Party at Center for the Arts!

10/07/2026

ingOutdoors is hiring!
ingOutdoors won the Audience Choice Award at our 2024 Pitch Day and is part of our TEAMS
mentorship program. Now the small Jackson-based team is growing, with two roles open now and two more coming soon.

ingOutdoors is building a brand new, one-of-a-kind outdoor adventure ecosystem: an app for planning expeditions with friends, and a marketplace for adventure inspiration, education, and trip plans from backcountry experts that people can actually execute.

Hiring now:
→ Creator Partnerships, Sales & Support Associate (Jackson, WY or hybrid):
https://jobs.buckrail.com/job/3023/partner-onboarding-support-associate-ingoutdoors-jackson-wy/

→ Software Engineer, Project-Based (Jackson, WY or hybrid)

Coming soon:
→ Adventure Community Manager
→ Full-Stack Engineer

Email [email protected] to apply or get in touch early, or tag someone who'd be a great fit.

10/07/2026

Thank you for coming out to Chance Meetings on Monday Night! This week we heard from veterans Todd Hannah, Mark Adkins and Eric Bressler on going from commanding troops to commanding a boardroom.

Our panelists dug into the lessons that carry over from military life to business. The challenges that don’t come with a playbook and why a mission-driven mindset matters for any entrepreneur.

Mark your calendars for our Holiday Party on December 7th at Center for the Arts. Free and open to all!

10/05/2026

Pitch Day 2026, by the numbers.

337 people registered through the event app. 108 connection requests were made between audience members and finalists, exactly the kind of introduction Pitch Day is built to spark. 29 University of Wyoming MBA students joined us in the room, and 29 more attended with Spanish translation support.

For everyone who couldn't be there in person, 81 watched the livestream, and 382 more have watched the recording on the Center for the Arts site since. That puts total viewership at 736 and counting.

And on stage, five Wyoming founders competed for $64,330 in cash and in-kind prizes.

Thank you to everyone who registered, watched, connected, and showed up for Wyoming entrepreneurship this year.