David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yes. Thanks to Health API Guy for the tip on that. At this point in the late 2000s, Epic is eyes on the prize, we’re building everything ourselves, we can get big customers on our own, we can stand firm and not negotiate, not have to give up pieces of our company, the price is the price, and we know that we’re going to deliver. So it’s time to invest in our future. How do they invest in the future? The Verona campus. For the probably minority of you listening, who know anything about Epic as a company or been involved with them in the past, if you have, you almost certainly know about their corporate campus. There are two stories of how the campus came to be. First is Judy’s son, by this point in time, is actually working at Microsoft in Redmond as a developer. Judy and Carl had always been inspired by Microsoft’s way of doing things. One time when Judy’s visiting her son, she’s like, hey, can you go give me a tour of the campus in Redmond? We’re thinking about expanding. We’re outgrowing our space. I want to see what it’s like there. She’s really impressed by Redmond as I think anybody who goes there would be. Especially in this era. It was pre-Googleplex. It was the fairytale tech campus.…

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