Our guest on this episode of the Changing Gears Podcast is trying to fix bike racing in the United States, learning from other major sports like basketball, baseball, and football, and using those models in a new and novel way.

Paris Wallace (he/him/his) is the founder and CEO of the National Cycling League, the first majority-minority and female owned professional sports league in the United States. Paris has an incredible background in entrepreneurship and is currently the Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School. He is an avid cyclist and he and his wife split their time between Miami and New England to keep riding bikes year-round.

In this episode, Paris and DZ talk about:

• His first job as a kid working in a bike shop and how that stemmed into his entrepreneurial career

• How he started Good Start Genetics while in Business school

• The bold mission of the National Cycling League

• The race format of the National Cycling League

You can follow along with Paris on Instagram here, on LinkedIn here, and learn more about the National Cycling League here.

Learn more about SRAM here.

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