And for anyone who wants to be nerd sniped by this one comment chain, the Acquired podcast recently did an episode on Epic and it is great.
Title: "Epic Systems (MyChart)."
Title: "Epic Systems (MyChart)."
227 MB 3:57:01
400 customers
47 years never lost a customer
Epic refuses to be acquired or engage in M&A
These podcasters seem to appreciate Epic. According to this recording, Epic's licensees like the product
According to the podcast, the software was so useful, Epic's future customers asked its founder to start a company
This was before the microprocessor had been invented
No venture capital
Today, 5.7B revenue