Leo Laporte

Gender: Male

Birthday: 1956-11-29

Place of Birth: New York, New York, U.S.A.

Biography

Leo Laporte has worked as an author, speaker, and broadcaster in New Haven, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, most recently focusing on technology coverage for radio, television, and the Internet. Currently Leo hosts The Tech Guy Show a national radio technology talk show every Saturday and Sunday from 2-5p Eastern on over 200 stations on the Premiere Networks including KFI, Los Angeles and KGO, San Francisco. Founded in April, 2005, his TWiT Netcast Network produces some of the most popular podcasts in the world heard by more than 6 million listeners and viewers each month including shows like this WEEK in TECH, Security Now!, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, and the Webby Award winning, Triangulation. In May, 2008, Leo launched a live streaming video version of TWiT called TWiT Live with 25 hours of original programming each week. 2.6 million people watched TWiT Live in its first month and the numbers continue to grow. TWiT broadcasts daily from a dedicated live-streaming video studio in Petaluma, California. Leo lives with his wife and TWiT CEO, Lisa Laporte, in Petaluma.