Bob Metcalfe

“Startups are not smaller versions of large companies.”

“The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users.”

“Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem obvious in retrospect, but are not obvious at the time.”

“The internet's weird. It's a weird place.”

“Ethernet was a lucky invention.”

“Innovation is the process of turning ideas into invoices.”

“I'm a venture capitalist. I'm a capitalist. I'm a technologist. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm an inventor.”

“I have a famous prediction - that in 1996, the internet will catastrophically collapse. I have since had to eat my words.”

“In our business, things happen a lot faster than you think, and then they happen a lot faster than you think.”

“You can't have a new technology without a new source of revenue.”

“The key to success is to be in the right place at the right time.”

“Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.”