I am working on a number of projects. I consult with a few companies on business development and marketing strategies. I am a founder of edgeio. And TechCrunch, my hobby, tends to take up a lot of time as well. I spent a few years as a corporate attorney at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini, working exclusively with technology companies.... I left [the] law firm life to join a hot startup and run sales and business development. The startup, RealNames, filed to go public but didn’t make it out before the bubble burst.... I left that startup as it was going through the IPO process and co-founded a company called Achex. We raised nearly $20 million after the bubble burst, and sold the company to First Data Corp about a year later for $32 million. After Achex, I’ve worked in an operational role at a Carlyle backed startup in London, founded and ran two companies in Canada (Zip.ca and Pool.com), was COO to a Kleiner backed company called Razorgator, and consulted to other companies, including SnapNames and Verisign.

Leo Laporte, a pioneer of tech radio and TV broadcasts, technical book author as well as host and producer some of the most popular podcasts in the world including This Week in Tech, Security Now!, net@nite, The Daily Giz Wiz, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, and Jumping Monkeys.