David Rosenthal: belief

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…Some interesting stats. It’s 1700 acres, 410 of them are the campus, the rest is the farm. It now covers 89 buildings. There are 4 indoor auditoriums with 18,000 seats total. The big one, Deep Space, is the world’s largest subsurface auditorium. There are 11,400 seats. This is an auditorium. This is two Radio City Music Halls full of people smashed together in one giant auditorium underground on a corporate campus. The number of seats is much closer to a Chase Center. It’s much closer to a basketball arena than it is to any other auditorium that I can think of. It goes down 74 feet beneath the surface. The whole logic behind it is when they built it, they thought, oh we’ll never grow to 11,400 people. We can have our all hands in here, no brainer. But this can also be the place where we have all of our customers and our whole ecosystem can come here. Of course, now they don’t actually fit in there because they’ve outgrown it. Not even all their employees can come to all hands there. The logic for building it was that they had a movie theater that they used to do their monthly all hands meeting, and they wanted to have this opportunity to do it on their new campus too. It’s wild. When you look at it, you just can’t believe the scale of this building. All right. I think now is the right time, while we’re talking about the campus and Epic culture, to really talk about Epic culture. Yeah, because the first thing that you have to understand is Judy refers to it as a software factory. When you keep looking at it and you’re like, why is it so weird? The biggest takeaway is in Judy’s mind, since they don’t ever go buy any other companies and they don’t have any competencies at the company other than making software, what they are is a factory that churns out software. They take in software developers and they turn that into software for the medical industry.…

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