The Tim Ferriss Show

#297: Bob Metcalfe — the Man (and Lessons) Behind Ethernet, Metcalfe’s Law, and More

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…