The Godfather of Greenery

Chapter 456 The final is approaching
Driving out from home every morning, passing the Starbucks at the intersection, stopping the car to buy a cup of hot coffee, drinking coffee while driving along the way, and arriving at the company headquarters unsteadily, Eliza Moon is already used to such days .

All the employees working at Leaf Technology are also used to this stunningly glamorous CEO who drives a red Ferrari. Although they can see her every day, every time they see her, everyone can't help but treat her Paying attention, especially every morning, watching her park the car in the special parking space in the parking lot and get out of the car.

Dressed in a capable OL professional attire, with long straight golden hair, although there is always a kind smile on the corner of his mouth at first glance, but if you want to get closer, you will quickly feel what it means to be superior cold and proud.

A woman who can manage a company with more than 2 employees worldwide, whose market capitalization is currently estimated to exceed 500 billion, and once listed, can easily reach a large company with a scale of [-] billion. If such a woman has no ability, no one can do it. She will believe it, but in fact, everyone knows that the company has developed very rapidly under her leadership in the past few years.

Therefore, every morning, when all Leaf Technology employees saw Eliza Moon, after paying attention to her, they would respectfully shout, "Good morning, Miss Moon!"

Then Eliza would smile politely, nod, and pass by them, leaving behind a burst of fresh fragrance.

Leaf Technology's headquarters is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, close to Stanford University, Google and Apple, which also shows Leaf Technology's current pivotal position in Silicon Valley and its attractiveness to talents.

With the acquisition of the huge patent library of Nortel Networks, Leaf Technology formed a patent company to reorganize these huge patents, which made Leaf Technology become the only two or three big companies in the field of smartphones after Nokia and Motorola. , a technology company with the strongest patent and technology research and development capabilities.

This battle has completely established Leaf Technology's leading position in the field of smartphones. Even now, everyone who knows the inside story is still discussing the amazing story about the legendary boss, because it was almost impossible to win Nortel Networks at that time. He bought it directly. The price seemed a bit high at the time, but looking at it now, it's a bargain.

According to the patent reorganization, although Leaf Technology does not attack opponents with patent wars, it has obtained part of the patent sharing from Microsoft, Nokia and other large companies, which allows Leaf Technology to sell Zeus mobile phones in the future without paying them patent fees. No need to worry about patent litigation, either.

Just for the patent fee alone, every Zeus mobile phone can earn ten dollars more. According to the current sales of Zeus mobile phones, it is estimated that the cost of acquiring these patents can be recovered within two years at the latest.

But if it’s just like this, it’s really not very eye-catching. Leaf Technology has tied Samsung, HTC and other big companies with a series of methods such as patent authorization. Among these patents of the electric network, Leaf Technology can also charge a lot of patent fees for every mobile phone they sell.

Relying on the mobile phone system and patents, Leaf Technology is equivalent to standing at the top of the smartphone industry chain. Big companies such as Samsung are completely equivalent to making and selling mobile phones for Leaf Technology, and promoting this mobile phone operating system by the way.

This was something that no one had thought of before the acquisition of Nortel Networks’ patent library. Even at that time, many large companies were still puzzled by the acquisition of Leaf Technology, but now looking back, they are all surprised to find that, Leaf Technology is one step ahead of them, especially for large companies such as Apple and Google that do not have huge patent support.

At least, Apple has been calling for a mobile phone for several years, but it has not produced a finished product yet. Instead, it has always hoped to cooperate with Leaf Technology to put their IPOD player into the Android system, and Google also has They are interested in making mobile phone systems, but they hope to cooperate with Firefox to develop open source systems.

Microsoft is also working on the WP smartphone system, but the progress is slow. Just because of the huge patents there, even if they succeed in developing it in the future, it will be difficult to get rid of the shadow of Leaf Technology.

All of this was created by the mysterious boss behind the scenes, which made Ye Qiu's internal employees have a vague impression of Ye Qiu, but it was full of mystery and strong curiosity. Both met CEO Eliza Moon, and they all looked a little in awe.

Leaf Technology's headquarters employs about 1 people, distributed in various departments, and more than half of them are people outside the United States, so there are many things in the company every day, but Eliza, who is used to withdrawing herself, It is to hand over all operational matters to COO Sandberg. When I come to the office every day, I just sit leisurely in the office, playing with my mobile phone, and looking at the scenery outside through the window by the way.

But don't think that she is very leisurely. In fact, even when she is drinking coffee, she is still thinking about problems.

Judging from the current situation, Leaf Technology has become a real leader in the field of smartphones. Although Nokia's smartphone sales are higher, its profits are thinner. Even if it is just based on the net profit of each mobile phone, Nokia must Lost to Leaf Technology by several blocks, let alone the real huge profit is not the net profit of mobile phones at all.

However, both Nokia and Motorola have a huge patent pool. These two companies will definitely be the two major hidden dangers of Leaf Technology in the future. According to Ye Qiu's previous plan, he will swallow one of them, in addition to further expanding Leaf Technology's mobile phone research and development. In addition to integrating the entire industrial chain and manufacturing capabilities, it must also weaken its competitors.

The most reasonable situation is that Leaf Technology's position in the smartphone field is similar to Intel in the CPU field, and other competitors are to become AMD. This is Ye Qiu's pursuit, because everyone knows that the market cannot be monopolized by you monopolized by people.

Eliza has already started to plan in advance. Currently, Leaf Technology has a huge cash flow in its hands. Although it can't swallow Nokia and Motorola for the time being, what about in the future?Now Eliza no longer doubts Ye Qiu's judgment, so she has been preparing all the time, and will strike as soon as the time comes.

For example, it has recently been reported in the market that Nokia will lay off 500 employees in its mobile phone business, and Motorola will also lay off 3000 employees in the mobile phone field. In terms of semiconductors, five or six famous companies such as Texas Instruments and AMD are laying off employees, many of whom are R&D personnel. Leaf Technology is also paying attention to their layoffs, and will strike when they meet the right ones, or take advantage of the chaos to poach corners.

In addition, Leaf Technology has also recently quietly acquired five chip companies, and established R&D centers in Silicon Valley and Xiamen, China, with the purpose of building the entire industrial chain of smartphones and achieving self-sufficiency, so as not to be controlled by others .

Now the whole world is suffering from the pressure of the US subprime mortgage crisis and the European debt crisis. Even semiconductor companies are not doing very well. On the contrary, companies like Leaf Technology, with the hot sale of Zeus mobile phones, are rising strongly. Seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and quickly increase your own strength. Otherwise, if you miss the opportunity, it will be difficult to reappear in the future.

Of course, regardless of Leaf Technology’s current wealth and abundant cash flow, it actually spends a lot of money. The salary of employees alone is a huge expenditure every year, but what is more important is the various research and development experiments, as well as the contribution to scientific research institutions. support, such as Stanford University.

In addition, Leaf Technology is still developing smart products such as tablets, watches, cameras, eyes, TVs, and cars. The annual R&D investment is also the largest expenditure of Leaf Technology. Among them, the tablet computer has reached the final stage, and it is expected to end 08. Or it will be launched in early 09.

In this regard, I have to mention Ye Qiu's selfishness. The semiconductor research and development center is located in Xiamen. In addition, Ye Qiu supports many research and development projects of many universities in China every year. These are actually his selfishness. Otherwise, Leaf Technology will apply to the US government every year. Among the 1 H[-]-B temporary visas for special professionals, why are more than half of them Chinese college students?

Even in order to be able to pass the visa, Eliza hired two professional immigration experts through Sandberg to be responsible for solving these visa problems.

Of course, in Eliza's opinion, these are more part of Ye Qiu's interesting personality, and she is already used to it.

Thinking of this, Eliza smiled, turned around and sat down at the desk, and picked up a report that the secretary had placed in front of her desk, which clearly showed the company's operations And the sales volume of the second-generation Zeus mobile phone launched on New Year's Day in 08 so far.

With the launch of the second-generation Zeus mobile phone this year, it has completely become the most popular product in the field of smart phones in the first half of the year. It sold 500 million units in the first three months of the first quarter. The first quarter was basically flat, which made Zeus II's global sales in the first half of the year expected to reach 3000 million units, surpassing BlackBerry and becoming the second largest smartphone manufacturer after Nokia. The annual sales in 2008 are also expected to reach It is possible to break through 500 million units.

However, if you look at it purely in terms of sales, it is still far behind Nokia, because Nokia’s sales in the first quarter reached 100 million units, and its market share was nearly 40%. This is definitely a shocking statistic , which is almost the sum of Leaf Technology and BlackBerry.

But to put it another way, if you look at pure profit, Nokia plus BlackBerry, even the total profits of all the top ten manufacturers in the list, are far less profitable than Leaf Technology. The reason why technology is so respected.

Glancing at the report, Eliza was not surprised by this result, on the contrary, she would be surprised if it was not like this.

Just as she put down the report, she flipped through her phone again. The screen was dark and there was no reminder signal.

"That damned bastard!" She shook her head in disappointment.

In fact, she has been holding her mobile phone in her hand for the past few days, just because she was worried that she accidentally missed a call, but to her disappointment, the call was never answered.

Just when she put the mobile phone on the desk, the phone rang. Her first instinct was to snatch the mobile phone from the desk. After a look, she found that it was the phone on the desk that rang, not the phone. On the phone, there was another bitter smile of disappointment.

"Miss Moon, in 10 minutes, you have a very important meeting, you asked me to remind you yesterday!" Picking up the phone, it was the secretary's voice.

"Okay, thanks, I see!" Eliza hung up the phone again, forgetting that she really did.

It was as if that damned guy had completely forgotten about her.

"No wonder people say, man, no one has a conscience!" Eliza shook her head and stood up.

But soon, someone knocked on the office door again.

As soon as Eliza asked to come in, the secretary opened the door and walked in, holding a FedEx in his hand, and delivered it to Elisa, "This is just delivered by the express."

"Okay, thank you!" Eliza took a look and laughed, just like a blooming flower.

When the secretary was about to leave, she secretly looked at her boss. She rarely saw Eliza smiling so happily. This boss seemed to be a very clean and capable strong woman. What? Have you ever seen her smile so feminine?
"Actually, the way she smiles is really charming!" Even as a woman's secretary, she couldn't help admiring in her heart.

Three things were taken out of the courier envelope, the final match ticket, the plane ticket to Moscow, and a paper card.

On the paper card is a funny cartoon character playing tricks while being wronged, and a paragraph of words is written next to it.

"I believe that when you received this courier, you must be scolding me in your heart. It's really wronged. I am so busy every day, and I even book air tickets and hotels for you, and even send it to you. If you do this, you will be scolded." , I can only vomit blood!"

Next came the name of the Moscow hotel he had booked for Eliza, the Hotel Svesot Karasny Hammer.

"Forget that you still have a little conscience!" The corner of Eliza's mouth curled up, and she laughed while holding the courier envelope, her heart was filled with something called satisfaction.

Sometimes, a woman's request is really simple and simple, but not all men understand it.

Svesot Kalasny Hammer Hotel is located in the center of Moscow, south of the Moscow River, not far from Luzhniki Stadium, about ten kilometers away.

This hotel is a famous five-star hotel in Moscow, with a height of more than 30 floors. The facilities are very complete and there are not many people around. The reason why Tottenham Hotspur chose this place as the team's residence in Moscow is because of their fancy the environment here.

Ye Qiu chartered two floors of the hotel, one of which was dedicated to resting for the first team players, coaching staff, and staff, and the other floor was for the families of the players and employees. The team specially arranged a chartered flight Send them from London to Moscow, just a day later than the team.

Tottenham Hotspur arrived in Moscow at noon on the 19th. Ye Qiu also got news from Ferguson before. They also arrived at about this time, but he did not meet Manchester United at the airport, but he saw a lot Manchester United fans preparing to pick up the plane, they are all British fans who arrived in Moscow ahead of schedule.

Of course, what is not inferior to Manchester United fans is the group of Tottenham Hotspur fans wearing white jerseys. They waited patiently at the airport. When the team appeared, this group of Tottenham Hotspur fans The fans went completely crazy.

From the airport to the hotel, there are advertisements and banners of the UEFA Champions League final everywhere. The city will definitely be affected by this game in the next few days, and the focus of everyone's attention is bound to be this game Champions League final.

Everywhere the bus passed was white and red, either Tottenham Hotspur fans or Manchester United fans, there were everywhere on the road, and you could scan them everywhere with your eyes along the way. color.

"It's crazy, isn't it?" Ribery, having played in a Champions League final, is no stranger to such scenes.

Similarly, Van Persie, Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Mascherano and others have also experienced the big scene of the Champions League final when they were Chelsea and Ajax, so they all seem to be a bit familiar, and like Beckham, he has become numb to such a big scene.

Why is the final so special?It is because it can condense your hard work in the past year, or even a lifetime, into just nine 10 minutes. No matter how you performed in the past, good or bad, your performance in nine 10 minutes determines whether you will go to heaven or go to heaven. Go to hell, extremely cruel!

"I heard that the scalpers outside have raised the price of the tickets to several thousand pounds. Oh my God, I still have three tickets in my hand, let's sell them!" Ribery was a little hooligan, He never knew what fear was. Even now, many other players are nervous to death, but he still looks relaxed and jokes.

Ye Qiu is also aware of the team's internal atmosphere, especially the nervousness of many players, and he has made arrangements for this, but he does not want the players to relax too much, because too much relaxation can easily lead to the lack of tension during the game , There will be a phenomenon of inattention, so many times, the psychology is really difficult to grasp and grasp, and it can only be relied on by the players themselves.

Tottenham Hotspur gave each player [-] tickets to the final, hoping that they could invite their relatives and friends to watch the game, and the club also provided accommodation and transportation for their immediate family members. In order to be able to put proper pressure on the players, after all, no one is willing to lose such a game in front of their relatives and friends.

This is a pressure, but also a motivation!
But the actual situation is often like this. Thirty tickets to the finals are simply not enough, so Roland has become the most popular guy in the team in the past few days. Almost every hour of every day, someone promised him a meal in exchange for his help. Get some tickets, this fat man is said to be full of food.

After finally arriving at the hotel, it has completely become a gathering place for Tottenham Hotspur fans, a five-star hotel with more than 30 floors, except for the two floors contracted by Tottenham Hotspur, and the players booked through the club. Some of the rooms were given to family and friends, and all others were snapped up by Tottenham Hotspur fans.

Even in Moscow, it is already difficult for you to book a hotel, because in the next two days, the city will be influx of more than 4 foreign fans, including more than [-] British fans. Imagine that the supply of hotels here will be completely in short supply.

Although there was no appointment in advance, it was really a coincidence that the hotel where Manchester United settled was north of the Moscow River, while the hotel for Tottenham Hotspur was south of the Moscow River. The two teams lived in two five-star hotels. A first-class hotel, it feels like fighting against Taiwan.

The Luzhniki Stadium, the host venue for this UEFA Champions League final, is next to the Moskva River.

With the arrival of Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United in Moscow, the atmosphere of the UEFA Champions League final in Moscow has also become tense, and the confrontation between the fans of the two teams has gradually escalated. Coupled with the reputation of British fans outside in the past, the Moscow police have become cautious. I'm afraid that an accident will cause some disturbance.

The two teams participating in the finals are fully committed to the final preparations.

(End of this chapter)