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The first was a group of college friends who wrote software for handhelds. It was really fun, and made enough to keep us above the grad student poverty line. We also always had nice(ish) computers. Given my low expectations, I count Scrawl as a success.

It was (effectively) cannibalized to start PatientKeeper. We raised ~$70M in venture and our software is now in use at an amazing number of hospitals. Though it hasn't had (I love this euphemism) liquidity event, I count it as a success. We employ ~90 people and touch thousands of physicans and hundreds of thousands of lives.

At the risk of being a tease, I'm not ready to talk about the third.



>We employ ~90 people and touch thousands of physicians and hundreds of thousands of lives.

Only in startup land would you have to justify that as a "success" by inserting the "although it hasn't had a liquidity event".

Congrats on creating what seems to be a healthy business!




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