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Ben Gilbert: observation

21 Apr 2025 Acquired Epic Systems (MyChart)

“Almost the only way in which Epic intersected with Silicon Valley in the entire company’s history, but this is a crazy point.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
observation
Recorded
21 Apr 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…There are some floating out around there. We can’t share all the stories that we heard in the research, but one fun thing is that at one point in time, I think this was probably the 2000s maybe, a pretty good chunk of those shares made their way to Sequoia Capital. Sequoia did not put that one on their website. Almost the only way in which Epic intersected with Silicon Valley in the entire company’s history, but this is a crazy point. They do $5.7 billion in revenue today. They dominate an industry, at least here in the United States, and in total they raised $70,000 of equity capital and $70,000 of bank debt. And that’s it.…

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