Startup Grind San Antonio with Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe’s 5 Careers• engineer-scientist• entrepreneur-executive• publisher-pundit• Venture Capitalist• Professor of Innovation at the

University of Texas at Austin

Bob Metcalfe Invented Ethernet

Metcalfe Co-Founded 3Com

• “After leaving Xerox Parc, I founded 3Com on June 4, 1979. We were a com before the dots, and I am what in Silicon Valley they call “old money,” Metcalfe wrote in a memo to Xconomy.

• HP bought 3Com in 2009 for $2.7 billion

After 3Com, Metcalfe worked as CEO and Internet columnist at InfoWorld

Metcalfe predicted the Internet collapse in ’95 & ate his column in ‘97

Venture Capitalist

• Metcalfe Joined Polaris Partners after InfoWorld. He now serves as Partner Emeritus

Metcalfe joined UT Austin in 2011

• He is Professor of Innovation in the Cockrell School of Engineering

Photo Sources

• 1st photo: Bob Metcalfe • 2nd photo: EthernetCrossoverCable.org• 3rd photo: 3Com Logo from HP• 4th photo: InfoWorld Logo • 5th photo: Internet Collapses book jacket cover from

Amazon.com• 6th Photo: Black and Decker• 7th Photo: Polaris Partners• 8th Photo: UT Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency