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    3Com Story Team
    • May 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    A Peek Inside Bob Metcalfe's Yearbook

    It's that time of year when high school and college kids step away from their digital screens and engage with some old-school media for a...

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    3Com Story Team
    • May 9, 2019
    • 2 min

    Executive Spotlight: Howard Charney

    "All Greek to Me" If you’re not up on Greek mythology, you might want to do a quick Google on the myth of Sisyphus. I’ll wait…. Sisyphus ...

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    3Com Story Team
    • May 2, 2019
    • 2 min

    Executive Spotlight: Bill Krause

    "3Com is a must read for anyone interested in learning about how the magic of Silicon Valley works. It is a story about the start up, gr...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Apr 18, 2019
    • 2 min

    Executive Spotlight: Ron Sege

    I met Ron Sege early on in my finance career, when we both worked at ROLM. This was circa 1984, the same year that Apple released the Mac...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Apr 11, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Larry Birenbaum

    Larry Birenbaum gets credit, in a way, for inventing Fast Ethernet—or at least asking the right question, “Can’t we just make Ethernet go...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 2 min

    Executive Spotlight: Janice Roberts

    I appreciate the fact that Janice Roberts lives in the Silicon Valley town next to mine, and that she also likes Italian food – naturally...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Mar 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Edgar Masri

    My first significant interaction with Edgar Masri was at an offsite with other managers. We called it the “Billion Dollar Managers” offsi...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Mar 21, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: John Hart

    John Hart—the Gymnast Inventor. John was 3Com’s CTO for most of a decade. He was instrumental in bringing boundary routing to 3Com, and h...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Mar 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Bob Finocchio

    Bob Finocchio was Eric’s right hand man for many years and an instrumental part of 3Com’s executive history. Bob ran 3Com’s Network Syste...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Mar 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Eric Benhamou

    If you get your hands on a copy of our book, you’ll be able to read 3Com CEO Eric Benhamou’s thought-provoking foreword that illuminates w...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Jeff Thermond

    So, who is this Jeff Thermond? Jeff is very smart, swears like a sailor, and discovered his love of technology all the way back when he w...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    Executive Spotlight: Chris Paisley

    Chris is one of the friendliest finance guys in the room, always smiling, and always looking for something humorous to add to the story. ...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Doug Spreng

    Doug Spreng has always greeted me with a smile and a kinetic energy that is contagious. Even with a bad right ankle (see his photo below)...

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    3Com Story Team
    • Feb 7, 2019
    • 1 min

    Executive Spotlight: Leon Woo

    Leon was a founder of Synernetics, the pioneering Ethernet switching company that was acquired by 3Com in 1994. This acquisition took pla...

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