He has over 30 Million videos views and is listed in the top 10 in the TubeMogul Top 40 but many folks outside of the tech world don’t know about Chris Pirillo and his online video lifestyle.

I ran into Chris at the pre-show of YouTube Live this weekend and was able to get a few words of wisdom from Chris that you can watch in the above video.

Chris Pirillo is a self described Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper.

Years ago he launched Lockergnome.com as a content publishing network and built the Gnomedex conference which has grown to become one of the blogosphere’s highly regarded events. Chris publishes a personal blog and lifecast to tens of thousands of viewers making him one of the top subscribed partners on YouTube. When searching Google for “Chris,” his site is listed as the first result. He is a monthly columnist for CPU Magazine, has authored books on business and personal technology and Chris also produces weekly video segments for CNN.com Live, where he offers tech advice to a savvy audience.

According to Chris’s site, he has recorded over 1,000 videos in the past year, cracked the “Top 100″ most subscribed throughout the whole of YouTube. His live stats are even more impressive: over 5 million unique live video viewers watched Chris do his “thing” in 2007 – a total of 2+ million LIVE viewer hours with an average viewing time of 25 minutes per visitor. In the month of August 2008, stats from the live video feed were recorded at 279,878 Viewer Hours, 1,141,472 Viewers, 827,159 Unique Viewers, 395.5 Average Viewers, 707 Hours of live broadcasting.

In the first seven days of launching his Web community for geeks, the logs recorded 587,402 pageviews, at 11 pages per visit, 40% bounce rate, ~10m sessions, and 50% return visitors with 3,000+ registrations. It’s in his blood to build experiences with communities.

His daily email newsletter goes out to 100,000+ confirmed opt-in subscribers. He launched what is now a prolific blog network in 1996, and started hosting his own tech conference series in 2001.

Although Chris’ content is not mainstream Chris understands community building both on and offline and has helped many online video producers network and grow.

Chris Pirillo is truly an Online Video leader.