Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte (; born November 29, 1956) is an American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur, best known as the founder and owner of the TWiT.tv (This Week in Tech) podcast network, which he launched in 2005. Laporte began his technology career in the 1980s as a software author and journalist. In the early 1990s, he hosted the syndicated radio show On Computers, which aired on over 60 stations. Laporte's television career began in the late 1990s when he co-hosted The Site, for which he earned an Emmy in 1997. He joined ZDTV (later TechTV) in 1998, co-hosting The Screen Savers and Call for Help until the network's acquisition by Comcast in 2004. From 2004 to 2022, he hosted the nationally syndicated radio program The Tech Guy, which aired on over 200 stations and focused on consumer technology advice.