Exhibit 7734 in the Theranos Trial

[Tomconroy]

It's in a pdf and I don't have the skills to reproduce it, but I thought it worth while to do a few excerpts.
It's 3 pages in Elizabeth Holmes' handwriting. Apparently it's notes to herself on how to run her company. The last bit is, shall we say, ironic?

Every morning I will force myself out of bed and spend twenty minutes to write what I want from the day. I will only spend time on things that are most important to cash flow and long term strategy.
I will never meet with anyone for more than 5 minutes unless I have written down why I am meeting with them.
I will always give crisp, clean goals and feedback to my subordinates... especially if they don't like it
I will never assume that people will do the right or noble(?) thing.
They are not motivated by what I am motivated by.


Words to live by.

[VMA131Marine]

1. She's a psycho!

[maxsolomon]

8. She is a sociopath.

She has no conscience.

Like our former President.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. The Great Brain's Frankenstein Formula for Living

tweaking more money from every angle

[Javaman]

3. I would love a sample of her handwriting to analyze

She’s a psychopath

[Tomconroy]

4. It was printed in sprawling wavy lines. There was a link in

The NYT Dealbook newsletter. I assume you can somehow access the court exhibits on line.

[Tomconroy]

5. Here's another exhibit:

https://finance.yahoo.com/amphtml/news/check-theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-231723145.html

[brush]

6. It was always about bringing in the bucks. The science never worked.

She was just the the Bernie Madoff of her field.

[melm00se]

7. Having interfaced with a dozen or so

Fortune 1000 CEOs and these are very common goals.

Every morning I will force myself out of bed and spend twenty minutes to write what I want from the day.

This is a great way to make sure that you organize your day and priorities.

I will only spend time on things that are most important to cash flow and long term strategy.

That is the job of a CEO.

I will never meet with anyone for more than 5 minutes unless I have written down why I am meeting with them.

As a CEO, there are lots of people who want pieces of their time, usually more time than there is in a day, and if someone is on their schedule, they sure as hell need to know why.

I will always give crisp, clean goals and feedback to my subordinates... especially if they don't like it

As an employee, don't you want to know what you should be doing and how you are performing to these goals?


I will never assume that people will do the right or noble(?) thing.

As a CEO, they have assumed responsibility for not just their company but for every investor, customer and employee (in no particular order). Because of this, they have to question what is being done and why but that doesn't always play out the way they want.

They are not motivated by what I am motivated by.

Try this: look at someone...anyone...and try to guess what their motivations are. Are you right? Do you know? What would you do if you asked them and found out their motivations were not in alignment with yours?

[maxsolomon]

9. they're pretty irrelevant to the case.

the issue is that she lied without conscience about the product she was developing.

[Sur Zobra]

10. It actually is relevant

because it rebuts her testimony that her ex-boyfriend controlled every aspect of her life, from what she ate to what time she got up in the morning.

[Tomconroy]

11. Researching further I see she claims this is in her

boyfriend's handwriting. If indeed these are common rules for CEO's then by her testimony she had to learn them from a hand printed note. And indeed if these are the rules for most CEOs perhaps the whole bunch aren't the brightest bulbs on Broadway.