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Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by tylervigen on Thursday November 06, 2025 @07:42AM (#45834583)
And for anyone who wants to be nerd sniped by this one comment chain, the Acquired podcast recently did an episode on Epic and it is great.

Title: "Epic Systems (MyChart)."

Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:06PM (#45838266)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250903203659im_/https://media....

227 MB 3:57:01

400 customers

47 years never lost a customer

Epic refuses to be acquired or engage in M&A

These podcasters seem to appreciate Epic. According to this recording, Epic's licensees like the product

According to the podcast, the software was so useful, Epic's future customers asked its founder to start a company

This was before the microprocessor had been invented

No venture capital

Today, 5.7B revenue

Re:ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and med... by junon on Thursday November 06, 2025 @01:15PM (#45838396)
Also, widely disliked and abhorrently expensive.