Robert Metcalfe Net Worth - Pulptastic

May 2024 · 1 minute read

Robert Metcalfe: Electrical Engineer and Businessman

Robert Metcalfe is an electrical engineer and businessman with a net worth of $300 million. He is best known as the founder of 3Com and the inventor of Ethernet. His passion for engineering started at a young age and he pursued it by attending MIT where he earned two B.S degrees in Electrical Engineering and Business Management. Metcalfe went on to earn a M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science three years later.

Metcalfe was fascinated with the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) while studying at Harvard and dedicated his doctoral dissertation on it. He worked at Xerox PACS where he invented Ethernet, the local area network that made it possible to use PCs as communication devices. He then moved to Xerox’s system development division where he was involved in developing the first ever PC to have a bit map screen, mouse, word processing, Ethernet plus software that make it possible to include text and graphic in the same document.

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