Judy Faulkner

“Judy made the call personally that Care Everywhere wasn't a thing or shouldn't be a thing where their customers could pick and choose. If you were enabling it worked across All Epic customers, even if they were your local competitor.”

“One, must be a longtime Epic employee, and two, must be a software developer.”

“And it's not true, but it kind of rounds to true to say Epic basically never did hire any business people. It is essentially a big, gigantic company of programmers, logicians, implementation people who could be programmers, who think like programmers. That is …”

“In 1985, this group, in partnership with a broader international group called Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Judy Faulkner's mom was part of a group that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.”

“My guess is if this is public, which it never will be, investors would value it somewhere in the hundred billion dollar neighborhood, giving Judy's shares a value of about fifty billion dollars and making her the wealthiest self-made woman in the world and one…”

“And for 18 years, listeners, that was how they tested to determine if someone should work at Epic.”

“They have them posted in every bathroom and in every break room across the entire campus. And so any visitor who goes there and it's open to the public, you can just go in and see the 10 Commandments in the bathrooms there. The 10 Commandments are number one, …”

“So they give her a book, like a manual on Fortran and Judy teaches herself Fortran in a week and becomes one of the best programmers in the lab.”

“Judy is almost certainly the most successful by any measure female founder in history. I think that is actually true. I looked up to try and see who else might even come close.”