A Geek Leader interview of Jim Jachetta by John Rouda

Ideas on Video Communications

AGL 274: Jim Jachetta About Jim Jim Jachetta, CTO & Co-founder at VidOvation Jim Jachetta is the driving force behind VidOvation’s world-class technology that makes the “impossible” and “never been done before” a viable solution within your daily business operations. Using modern, easy-to-support technology, Jim and the talented VidOvation team creatively design, implement, and support wireless, cellular, IPTV, video over IP, and fiber optics installations that meet your organization’s business goals and at a price point that fits any size, scope, and budget. Today We Talked About Jim Jachetta's background VidOvation IPTV Broadcast Technology Hiring post COVID Sales Security Multi-cast Networks Connect with Jim Twitter LinkedIn Website I hope you enjoyed this show, please head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe and leave me a rating and review, even one sentence will help spread the word. Thanks again! AGL 274: Jim Jachetta John Rouda: This is A Geek Leader Podcast, and I'm your host, John Rouda. This show is all about helping us grow as leaders, become better technologists, and improve our lives both at work and at home. I hope you enjoy the show and learn a lot. Hello world, and welcome to A Geek Leader Podcast. I'm your host, John Rouda. Today's sponsor is A2 Hosting. I've been using A2 Hosting's solid state hosting solutions for our website at ageekleader.com for many, many years now, and absolutely love their support, their service, and all the features that you get. You get access to cPanel. You get all of the things that you can imagine for a great WordPress experience, including their A2 optimized WordPress, which does extra security checks, extra lockdown. You can lock down your editor file so you can't edit anything inside there. You get alerts whenever there are file changes that are done. You can also do automatic updates, backups and more with A2 hosting, so highly recommend it. Go to ageekleader.com/a2 to get more information and to sign up for their solid-state turbocharged speed hosting today. Again, that's ageekleader.com/a2. All right, Geek Leaders, today on the show I am honored to have Jim Jachetta from VidOvation on the show. He is the CTO, co-founder, and they do some really cool stuff when it comes to the broadcast and media technology realm, which is the industry that I work in, so it's very self-serving to have him on the show today. Well, anyway, we're going to talk about leadership, we're going to talk about new tech that's going on, especially in the video world, and with all that being said, Jim, welcome to the show. Jim Jachetta: Hey, John, thanks for having me. I'm honored to be one of your guests. I'm looking forward to this conversation. John Rouda: Yeah, me too. If you don't mind, just tell the audience a little bit about how you got to where you are in your career, what your background's been like, and what is it that you guys do over at VidOvation. Jim Jachetta: Well, I hope you got a couple hours, John. I could go back pretty far. As a kid, my dad was an Italian immigrant. He came to this country with $12 in his wallet and met my mom, got married at a young age, and he was very proud of the 30 to 35 different jobs he had over the years. He started as an HVAC repair man. He welded windows. He got a job at Emerson Radio manufacturing radios, and eventually ended up in the television industry, the broadcast industry. His first job was in the industry was the very early days the WWF. Is it John McMahon or Jim McMahon? John Rouda: Jim McMahon, yeah. Jim Jachetta: Yeah, Jim McMahon, the founder. I remember years after I go to my dad like, "Was there a guy, Jim McMahon, there in those early days?" He's like, "Yeah, he always bought us pizzas at the end of the day. Very nice guy." So, my dad was from Italy and he didn't understand why grown men in tights were hitting each other over...