Aug. 15, 2005  |  Bob Metcalfe Scott Kirsner chats with Bob Metcalfe, who is a venture capitalist at Polaris Venture Partners who believes that new technologies don't succeed simply because they're cool; they succeed because they're sold doggedly. While at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Metcalfe helped link the world's computers together by inventing the Ethernet networking protocol. After leaving Xerox PARC, he founded 3Com, and later went on to a career in technology publishing at International Data Group. In March 2005, Metcalfe received the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush.  Download the podcast  Boston Globe Bizcasts Home  |  Archive