Judy Faulkner Made $7.7 Billion From Healthcare Software. Here’s Her Unusual Plan To Give It Away.

Forbes October 19, 2024
Katie Jennings

Led by her youngest daughter Shana Dall’Osto, the Epic founder and CEO’s family foundation Roots & Wings will soon be granting around $100 million to hundreds of nonprofits each year.

_{By Katie Jennings, Forbes Staff}

When Warren Buffett called, Judy Faulkner agreed to meet him in Omaha for dinner.

Faulkner, the billionaire founder and CEO of Verona, Wisconsin-based medical records giant Epic Systems, had also made her fortune in the Midwest. In a dining room at the Happy Hollow Club, Buffett made a pitch for her to sign The Giving Pledge, a commitment by the world’s wealthiest people to give away the majority of their money to charitable causes. “I thought, since I’m trying to give away my money, it’d...

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