Rants and rAVes — Episode 989: The Rich Ventura Goes to Sony Interview

After nearly 20 years at NEC Display, Rich Ventura became the VP of B2B at Sony Professional last week. Why’d he leave NEC, and why the heck did he go to Sony? Watch, and you’ll hear why!
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