Robert Metcalfe promised to eat his words when he said the Internet would crash in 1996. So at a conference in  1997 he actually ate his words by putting the paper he wrote in a blender and a blended it up and drinking it. He is now a general at Polaris Venture Partners.

Patrica Russo had a career in the communications industry. She graduated from Georgetown university. She has maneged at&t for more than 20 years now. She was a tenure at Alcatel-Lucent which was one of the biggest corporations in  the world ruled by a women.