Bob Metcalfe (@BobMetcalfe) is an MIT-Harvard-trained
engineer-entrepreneur who became an Internet pioneer in 1970,
invented Ethernet in 1973, and founded 3Com Corporation in 1979.
About 1.2B Ethernet ports were shipped last year — 400M wired and
800M wireless (Wi-Fi).
3Com went public in 1984, peaked at $5.7B in annual sales in
1999, and after 30 years became part of HP last year. Bob was a
publisher-pundit for IDG-InfoWorld for about 10 years and a
venture capitalist for about 10 years with Polaris Venture
Partners, where he continues as a Venture Partner.
Bob is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a
recipient of the National Medal of Technology.
In this conversation, we talk about everything from how he toasts
when drinking with friends, how he learned to recruit and fire,
what he does to scale businesses, different approaches to talent
evaluation, critical decisions and mistakes made, how he has
gotten through dark times, and much more. Please enjoy!
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