Judy Faulkner

They looked puzzled.

Then they started whispering.

Then they knew the answer.

You could just see they were so excited.

Food and money.

I said, no, roots and wings.

Roots so that you grow strong, wings so you can fly.

So many years later, when it came time to have a foundation, take the money, because otherwise if I die and all has to be cashed in, there's some huge amount of money, what are you going to do with it?

So Creative Foundation, they said to me, you need to name it Roots and Wings, which I thought was very sweet.

Roots and Wings can give donations to deserving organizations and Epic gets stock back that had been my stock.

that it could then distribute to employees.

I just think that we've been so lucky to avoid it.

It would have changed us, I think.

Now, what I found out was some of the people who were originally involved with the creation of Epic

Mostly there were people I had worked with at the university.

Some of them did see Epic as a cash-out thing, which I hadn't known.

I only found it out once Epic started becoming more successful and realized that they wanted to sell it, which wasn't what I wanted to do at all.

I believe that there are quite a few companies where the goal of the people starting the company is to have a good product for people they care about.

Nowadays, though, they go get venture capital.

Venture capital might support 10 different companies.