# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-pirillo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:52:56.856Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-pirillo"
name: "Chris Pirillo"
slug: "chris-pirillo"
description: "Chris Pirillo is an American entrepreneur and former television personality. He is the founder and former CEO of LockerGnome, Inc., a network of technology-focused blogs, web forums, mailing lists, and online communities that operated from 1996 to 2015. Pirillo was also a host of Call for Help, a call-in tech support show which aired on TechTV from 2001 to 2003. From 2001 to 2011, he hosted Gnomedex, a single-track technology conference."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Pirillo_speaking_at_Gnomedex_in_2007_photograph_by_Kris_Krug.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973-07-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           66.82
  momentum:             5.314285714285713
  historical:           4.627756
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 327042
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/ChrisPirillo"
    handle:    "ChrisPirillo"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/chrispirillo/"
    handle:    "chrispirillo"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@chrispirillo"
    handle:    "chrispirillo"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/61572258946445"
    handle:    "61572258946445"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispirillo/"
    handle:    "chrispirillo"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1022052/"
    handle:    "nm1022052"
  - platform:  "TWITCH"
    url:       "https://www.twitch.tv/ChrisPirillo"
    handle:    "ChrisPirillo"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://pirillo.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChQl2YkLt3dj-KDyGUBzcHw"
    handle:    "@chrispirillo"
    followers: 327000
  - platform:  "GITHUB"
    url:       "https://github.com/chrispirillo"
    handle:    "ChrisPirillo"
    followers: 42
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pirillo"
    title: "Chris Pirillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%ED%94%BC%EB%A6%B4%EB%A1%9C"
    title: "크리스 피릴로"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pirillo"
    title: "Chris Pirillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pirillo"
    title: "Chris Pirillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pirillo"
    title: "Chris Pirillo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1813023"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump