Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Great. All right. One last thing, listeners. Remember, New York City, July 15th. We can’t wait to see you there. acquired.fm/nyc to make sure that you get the latest and you’re first to know as soon as we say what the heck is going on. On that note, thank you to our partners this season. J.P. Morgan Payments, ServiceNow, Crusoe, and Fundrise. Thank you to all the people who spent time with us on this one. We talked to dozens of people and I think we can probably thank four or five of them specifically on air. As always, Arvin Navaratnam at Worldly Partners for his great write-up linked in the show notes. Brendan Keeler who writes the Substack, Health API Guy, he’s awesome. Bryan Lawrence is the founder of Oakcliff Capital and was a great thought partner in this episode. Lekan Wang, a healthcare technology investor and managing partner of JSL Health Capital. Scott Gaines, a longtime IT executive from Highland and CoverMyMeds. Patrick Wingo, the head of research at Elion, someone who has studied the health IT space very diligently and formally at Palantir. John Bertrand, the CEO of Digital Diagnostics, an advisor at 8VC and a former Epic employee. He really helped me understand the culture and what a unique place it is to grow and develop there. And to Dr. Abed Meir, a Stanford physician and investor who used Epic firsthand before becoming an investor, and was inspired to become an Epic shareholder himself. David, I know you’ve got a few folks as well. A whole number of health system CIOs who I spoke with. Huge thank you to all of you. One that I wanted to call out specifically was Mike Pfeffer, the CIO of Stanford Medicine. Two fun ones, two of Jenny and my friends from our Princeton undergrad days who are now doctors at big Epic sites. Molly Kantor, who’s a doctor here at UCSF in San Francisco, and Carine Davila who is a doctor at MGH, at Harvard MGH in Boston. Got to speak with both of them about the physician experience using Epic. Then finally we have a number of people to thank at Epic itself. Since there really isn’t any canonical long form piece about the company out there, we thought, we usually don’t do this, but let’s just email Judy and see if we can chat. And yes, she responded and we did.…

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