Biography
Chris Pirillo was born on July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa to Judy and Joe Pirillo. Chris has two younger brothers, Benjamin and Adam. He studied at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English education, eventually graduating with an English degree. For a short time, he was a 7th grade English teacher at Coke R. Stevenson Middle School in San Antonio, Texas.
Pirillo streams a live video of his home office out via ustream.tv and frequently records videos on various tech-based and non-tech-based topics. During the course of 2011, Pirillo achieved 200,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 100,000 dedicated Twitter followers. His current video views of all time stand at just over 150 million. Chris used to host a longer version of 'TLDR' (The Lockergnome Daily Report) on weekdays, streaming it live from his home office. He now hosts a shorter version of TLDR and a new series of videos dubbed, 'Geekout'. Pirillo has been married three times, before to Gretchen Hundling and Ponzi Black-Pirillo. He currently lives in Issaquah, Washington, with his third wife, Diana.
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