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Bob Metcalfe on Inventing Ethernet and Lessons in Entrepreneurship
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In this podcast, MIT and Harvard trained engineer and entrepreneur Bob Metcalfe discusses his journey as an internet pioneer, including inventing Ethernet in 1973 and founding Three Com Corporation in 1979. He shares valuable lessons in hiring, firing, scaling businesses, and the critical decisions he made.
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