Vinnie Lauria

We built Lefora from the ground up with the idea that forums should be easy to create with features that foster community building. I had my hand in many hats, including: fundraising, product spec, marketing, PR, social media, Search Engine Optimization (generating 30% of all traffic), & sophisticated email retainment campaigns accounting for 15% of traffic.

I also had the fortune to take time off to spend one year travelling around Asia, immersing myself in new cultures. I spent 10 days driving an auto-rickshaw (tuk tuk) over 1,000km across India. I ventured 4,014km high to to tallest city in the world - Litang, China. I rocked out to Beijing underground hip hop, scooted around the island of Taiwan, and explored the jungles of Borneo and Laos! I was invited to personally join the Sultan of Yogakarta, Indonesia for a New Year's festival. I took a 10 day vow of silence to learn Vipassana meditation, and spent 2 weeks living at a buddhist monastery, studying Kung Fu under Shaolin monks.