Judith Faulkner is the founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which develops medical-record software to "help people get well, help people stay well, and help future generations be healthier." Faulkner, a computer programmer, founded the now $3.2 billion company in her basement in Wisconsin, according to Forbes. It supports the medical records of over 250 million patients, and top medical centers like Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic use it. Though she never raised venture capital or made any acquisitions, she's lead her company to success.
Her best advice: She told The Cap Times that it's important to trust yourself. “I wonder sometimes why more people don't do that,” she said. “I always think of it as the yellow brick road. I can see the yellow brick road. I know how to step down it and I don’t want to go off of it. I can see it. And I think for the others maybe they can see it, but they question it. They say, ‘Is it really the yellow brick road?’ But they probably know it is.”
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