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123. 5th Wheel IT Spy Ends Up Getting Hired and then gets Everything he Asks For

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Malachi Salazar I’m the IT and Marketing Director for Fun Town RV, the largest towable RV dealer in the nation. Fun Town RV’s main focus is to provide families a lifestyle that allows them to take on new adventures and make lasting memories. In this role I lead the company’s marketing and technological efforts, overseeing a team of ten marketing professionals and five information technology professionals as well as managing the annual spending for both departments.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds.

0:13.9

Today, we are talking with Malachi Salazar.

0:19.2

And you have, in my personal opinion, the coolest background picture on

0:26.7

LinkedIn.

0:28.4

And, yes, yes, and profile picture as well because you live or support, we should say support,

0:36.2

maybe live, we don't know that yet, a secret world,

0:40.5

a secret world that many people don't know about unless you live in that world.

0:45.2

And that is the world of RVing or RVs.

0:51.3

And I have a, I haven't told many people this vision or a secret, kind of like a business,

1:02.9

there's a few businesses that I want to start up someday. One of them would be a trailer park,

1:08.2

believe it or not, like an off thethe-grid, off-net trailer park.

1:13.4

I work in IT, I work in technology, and the irony of all of this is that I like to be off-the-grid as much as possible.

1:20.5

And I looked up the other day how many Americans right now are living in an RV, not a trailer park, right?

1:32.5

Not like a double wide, not a single manufactured home, but actually living in an RV,

1:40.1

probably traveling around the United States, doing whatever they do.

1:45.2

And it's well into the hundreds of thousands.

1:50.5

So let's just start off with that.

1:53.4

How connected are, you're the IT guy, okay, at head of Fountown RVs.

1:59.3

And we can get to like how you transformed their entire network when you first came in however long ago that that was.

2:06.0

Maybe just, you know, but first, how connected are you with the world of RVing?

2:11.7

So as far as RBeen, I mean, like I said, I live and breathe R-Veen ever since I came to work for Funtown RV.

2:18.7

Before then, not so much. My grandparents were R-Bers, so they'd go out, they'd go camping,

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