Pattern Breakers

Bob Metcalfe: Co-inventor of Ethernet. Tech industry legend and Polymath.

Apr 4, 2020

39:35

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Dido, Are You Ever Exposed to His Reality Distortion Field?

02:00

How Did a Metcalf's Law Come About?

03:06

What Was the Breakthrough Idea With Packet Switching?

01:48

Introduction

2min

How Did You Get Involved in Computer Net Working?

2min

The Arpinet Internet, a Network for Connecting Computers

2min

What Was the Breakthrough Idea With Packet Switching?

2min

Zirok Park, Paloalto

2min

What Is Ziro Park?

2min

How to Get Away From Zirox Park

4min

Snaw, Sna.

2min

How Steve Jobbs Introduced You to the Crowd

2min

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Dido, Are You Ever Exposed to His Reality Distortion Field?

2min

11.

I Had a Head Start on a Venture Capital Company

2min

12.

How Did You Get Better at Sales?

2min

13.

What Did You Learn From Steve Jobs?

2min

14.

The Secret of Sales

2min

15.

You Don't Want to Be the Hero of the Discussion

3min

16.

Is There a Product Market Fit?

4min

17.

How Did a Metcalf's Law Come About?

3min

18.

Starting a Company Is a Great Thing

2min

Bob Metcalfe has lived in the future since the late 1950s. And lucky for the rest of us, he has brought us along for the ride. In this interview, Mike Maples Jr of Floodgate talks to him about the origins of networked computing as well as the birth of "Metcalfe's Law." Check out the Pattern Breakers Blog at patternbreakers.substack.com for even more Pattern Breaking content from Mike. Mike's book Pattern Breakers is available now wherever you buy books. Follow Mike on X!

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