Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, co-founder of 3Com, former CEO and columnist with InfoWorld, partner emeritus with Polaris Ventures and now Professor of Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin is featured at Startup Grind San Antonio on Tuesday, Sept. 24th.

1. Startup Grind San Antonio
with Bob Metcalfe

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

4. Bob Metcalfe Invented Ethernet

6. 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

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

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

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

12. Metcalfe joined UT Austin in 2011
• He is Professor of Innovation in the Cockrell
School of Engineering

14. 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