How Did You Do That?

Glen Tullman has an undergraduate degree in economics and psychology, spent a year in Oxford, England studying social anthropology, lived for a year with the Amish, and is a highly successful software entrepreneur. He's founded, grown or invested in more than 20 businesses. "Studying how cultures change is now about studying how we use different digital tools and electronic tools, and hopefully use them for good means as opposed to bad means," Tullman explains. During the 15 years he led Allscripts, the electronic health record company went public and grew annual revenue to $1.4 billion from about $30 million. Tullman steered Allscripts and two other companies through initial public offerings (IPOs). The most recent, Livongo, raised $355 million in July 2019 and was the most successful IPO in Illinois history and the largest consumer digital health IPO ever. "Livongo focused on chronic conditions. A third of the employees either had a chronic condition or had a family member who did,"