Pizza, originally called World’s Healthiest Pizza, in New Orleans in 2006 with Randy Crochet, aiming to create a healthy pizza. They used whole grains and inulin from agave. They recovered after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their restaurant and gained investors, notably Mark Cuban in 2009, who encouraged them to use social media to attract further investment including from the Kraft family. Leach sold his share as expansion plans failed and the flagship store closed in 2016. While running Naked Pizza, Leach and a man named Jeff Reifman won a competition in 2009 to find Wired journalist Evan Ratliff, who was in hiding for a month. Leach moved to ghost town Terlingua from Austin in 2013. In 2017 he founded Basecamp Terlingua, a holiday rentals company. In 2019, he founded a company marketing the alcoholic drink sotol and a festival dedicated to the drink with his girlfriend. Personal life He grew up in Boston, Texas and is from Austin, Texas. With his ex-wife he has a daughter, born around 2000, whose type 1 diabetes diagnosis aged 2 led him into researching healthy food and biology. His children and their mother lived in Canada in 2010. In late 2019, Leach was accused of multiple counts of assault by four women and a man, including sexual assault. Leach denies the allegations and unsuccessfully sued an accuser for defamation, though his appeal to the Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso in March 2020 is still pending. Airbnb removed his Basecamp Terlingua from its listings in November 2019, following the allegations. He was indicted by a grand jury in February 2020 for an alleged 2014 assault, with a $20,000 bond from Brewster County sheriff's office. At a hearing in December 2020, Leach declined a plea deal by DA Sandy Wilson and Judge Roy Ferguson confirmed that the case would go to trial, likely in August 2021. Works References External links Biography on American Society for Microbiology egyptrevealed.com on the Wayback Machine, May 2000 insearchofamelia.com/ on the Wayback Machine, January 2002 www.paleobioticslab.com/ on the Wayback Machine, December 2005 nakedpizza.biz on the Wayback Machine, October 2008 People from Austin, Texas People from Bowie County, Texas People from Brewster County, Texas American microbiologists American paleoanthropologists Businesspeople from Texas 1967 births 21st-century American anthropologists 20th-century American anthropologists University of Texas alumni American food scientists Living people