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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ)
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To: DAVID who wrote (12427)8/1/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: E'Lane  Read Replies (2) of 23519
 
David

<<-Sell that expensive home office in Mountain View, CA and move into trailers in East Palo Alto, CA. (i.e. the getto).
-Sell Wilson's company owned Mercedes and give him a bike.
-Staff the corporate office down to where Wilson has to answer the phone.
-Eliminate the perks (i.e. picnics).
-Fire at least 1/2 of the remaining V.P.'s.>>

- I wouldn't own a company knowing it's offices were in the ghetto.
- Why should the CEO of Vivus ride a bike? Mercedes? Yeah, sell it and that will make the price pop overnight.
- I don't want Leland answering the phones. He needs to be running our company. Besides, he'd have to put up with all the "moods" of the investors if he answered the phone.
-Eliminate employee perks? If you have ever been an employee or an employer, you would know it just doesn't work that way. Unhappy, unappreciated employees are counter-productive. A picnic is a show of appreciation and pride in your employees. Sounds like a pretty inexpensive way to accomplish this to me.
-Fire the VP's? OK, there is a reasonable request. I guess. Wonder how much their severance packages would cost us?

I am on the same team as you all. Just looking at some things from a different angle. I chose not to slam every aspect of something I put my money & trust into.

E'Lane...long VVUS
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