On paper, Faulkner is worth $7.8 billion, thanks to her 43% stake in Epic. The health software firm is one of the largest private tech players in the U.S., pulling in $5.7 billion in annual revenue. But the CEO, who was born in the silent generation, isn’t looking to grow her nest egg—in fact, she’s trying to get rid of it.
Fortune reached out to Epic Systems for comment.
Epic Systems’ massive 1,670-acre campus in Wisconsin is nothing like the futuristic or modern headquarters of other billion-dollar Silicon Valley tech companies.
The grounds are adorned with a metal wizard standing guard of a castle, chocolate chips leading to a fake chocolate factory, and a hanging bridge that leads to a treehouse. And inside, the rooms are filled with chachkis and paintings that Epic employees help source with Faulkner at local arts fairs.
And once a month inside Epic’s underground auditorium, called Deep Space, the business holds a mandatory staff meeting. According to CNBC, some employees jokingly call the get-together “work church,” when executives run through Epic’s business news and targets. But Faulkner also likes to throw a twist in the typical boring all-hands meeting by having a grammar lesson, teaching language lessons like when to use “who” or “whom.”
Epic Systems isn’t the only company with an office set-up unlike most others.
