Volume 1 Chapter 466 The final is coming
Every morning I drove out from home, passed the Starbucks at the intersection, stopped the car and bought a cup of hot coffee, drank coffee while driving along the way, and arrived at the company headquarters in a leisurely manner, Eliza Moon was used to such days.
All the employees who work in Ye Technology are also accustomed to this beautiful CEO who drives a red Ferrari, although they can see her every day, but every time they see her, everyone can't help but pay attention to her, especially when she parks her car in the special parking lot early in the morning and gets out of the car.
Dressed in a trained OL professional outfit, with long straight blond hair, although there is always a smile on the corner of his mouth that looks kind at first glance, if you want to be closer, you will quickly feel what is called the cold arrogance of the superior.
A woman can manage a company with a total of more than 20,000 employees in the world, and the current market value of the outside world has exceeded 50 billion, and once it is listed, it can reach a large company with a scale of 100 billion yuan at will.
Therefore, every morning, all the employees of Yezi Technology will always shout respectfully, "Good morning, Miss Moon" after seeing Eliza Moon
Then Eliza would nod her head with a courtesy smile and pass by them, leaving a fresh scent of fragrance.
Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, close to Stanford University, Google and Apple, Ye's current pivotal position in Silicon Valley and its attraction to talent.
With the acquisition of Nortel Networks' huge patent base, Yezi Technology has formed a patent company to restructure these huge patents, which makes Yezi Technology the technology company with the strongest patent and technology research and development capabilities in the smartphone field after a very small number of two or three large companies such as Nokia and Motorola.
This battle has completely established the leading position of Ye Technology in the field of smart phones, even now, all those who know the inside story are still discussing the magical story about the legendary boss, because at that time, he almost took the Nortel network directly, and the price seemed a bit high at the time, but from now on, it is too cost-effective.
According to the patent reorganization, although Ye Technology does not attack its opponents with patent wars, it has obtained a part of the patent sharing from Microsoft, Nokia and other large companies, which allows Ye Technology to sell Zeus mobile phones in the future without paying them patent fees, nor do they need to worry about patent litigation.
The royalties alone will earn an extra $10 for each Zeus phone sold, and based on the current sales of Zeus phones, it is expected that the cost of acquiring these patents will be recouped in two years at the latest.
But if it's just that, it's really not very remarkable, Leaf Technology uses a series of methods such as patent licensing to bundle Samsung, HTC and other large companies, in addition to authorizing the mobile phone system and part of the original Leaf Technology's own research and development patents, from these patents of Nortel Network, every time they sell a mobile phone, Leaf Technology can also charge a lot of patent fees.
Relying on the mobile phone system and patents, Leaf Technology is equivalent to standing at the top of the smartphone industry chain, and Samsung and other large companies are completely equivalent to making and selling mobile phones for Leaf Technology, and promoting this mobile phone operating system by the way.
This is before the acquisition of Nortel Network's patent library, no one thought of it, and even at that time, many large companies were still puzzled by the acquisition of Leaf Technology, but now looking back, they are full of surprise 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, even more so.
At the very least, Apple has been shouting about building mobile phones for several years, but it has not yet come up with a finished product, but has always hoped to cooperate with Leaf Technology to put their IpOD player into the Android system, and Google is also interested in making a mobile phone system, but they hope to cooperate with Firefox to develop an open source system.
Microsoft is also working on a smartphone system, but the progress is slow, not to mention that the huge patents are placed there, even if they succeed in developing them in the future, it is difficult to get rid of the shadow of leaf technology.
All of this was created by the mysterious boss behind it, which made the internal staff of Ye Technology have a vague impression of Ye Qiu, but they are full of mystery and strong curiosity, but they are all in awe of Eliza Moon, the CEO who meets every day.
Yezi Technology's headquarters employs about 10,000 people, distributed in various departments, more than half of which are people outside the United States, so there are many big and small things in the company every day, but Eliza, who is used to pulling herself out, is to hand over all the operational matters to COO Sandberg, and when she comes to the office every day, she sits leisurely in the office, playing with her mobile phone, and looks at the scenery outside through the window by the way.
But don't think she's laid-back, in fact, even if she's drinking coffee, she's still thinking about things in her head.
Judging from the current situation, Leaf Technology has become a real leader in the field of smart phones, although Nokia's smartphone sales are higher, but the profits are thinner, even if it is simply the net profit of each mobile phone, Nokia has to lose several streets to Leaf Technology, not to mention that the real huge profit is not the net profit of mobile phones at all.
But Nokia and Motorola both have huge patent libraries, these two companies will definitely be the two hidden dangers of Ye Technology in the future, and according to Ye Qiu's previous plan, he wants to swallow one of them, in addition to further expanding Ye Technology's mobile phone R&D and manufacturing capabilities, integrating the entire industrial chain, and weakening his competitors.
The most reasonable situation is that Ye Technology's position in the field of smartphones is similar to Intel in the CP domain, and other competitors are to become AND This is Ye Qiu's pursuit, because everyone knows very well that the market cannot be monopolized by you alone.
Eliza has begun to lay out in advance, and at present, Ye Technology has a huge cash flow in her hands, although she can't swallow Nokia and Motorola for the time being, but what about the future? Eliza no longer doubted Ye Qiu's judgment now, so she had been preparing all along, as soon as the time came.
For example, it has recently been reported in the market that Nokia's mobile phone business will lay off 500 people, and Motorola will also lay off 3,000 employees in the mobile phone field.
In addition, Yezi Technology has recently quietly acquired five chip companies and set up R&D centers in Silicon Valley and Xiamen, China, with the aim of building the entire industrial chain of smartphones to achieve self-sufficiency and avoid being controlled by others.
Now the whole world is under the pressure of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and the debt crisis in Europe, even if it is a semiconductor company, the business situation is not very good, but a company like Ye Technology, with the hot sale of Zeus mobile phones, a strong rise, naturally to grasp this golden opportunity, quickly expand their strength, otherwise miss the opportunity, it will be difficult to appear again in the future.
Of course, despite the fact that Ye Technology now has a lot of money, abundant cash flow, and actually spends a lot of money, the annual employee salary alone is a huge expense, but more important is a variety of R&D experiments, as well as support for scientific research institutions, such as Stanford University.
In addition, at present, Ye Technology is also developing smart products in many aspects such as tablet computers, watches, cameras, eyes, TVs, cars, etc., and the annual R&D investment is also the bulk of Ye Technology's expenditure, among which tablet computers have reached the final stage, and it is expected that UR will be able to launch at the end of the year or early 09.
In this regard, we have to mention Ye Qiu's selfishness, the semiconductor R&D center is located in Xiamen, and Ye Qiu supports many R&D projects of many Chinese universities every year, which are actually his selfishness, otherwise, more than half of the 300 HlH special professionals temporary visas that Ye Technology applies to the U.S. government every year are 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 of a part of Ye Qiu's interesting personality, and she is used to this.
Thinking of this, Eliza smiled, turned to sit down at the desk, and picked up a report that the previous secretary had placed in front of her desk, which clearly showed the company's operations and the sales of Zeus II phones launched on New Year's Day of UR so far.
With the launch of Zeus II mobile phones this year, in the first half of the year in the field of smart phones, it has become the most popular product, selling 15 million units in three months in the first quarter, and the second quarter is basically the same as the first quarter, which makes the total global sales of Zeus II in the first half of the year are expected to reach 30 million units, surpassing BlackBerry and becoming the second largest smartphone manufacturer after Nokia, and the annual sales of UR are also expected to exceed 65 million units.
However, if you look at it purely in terms of sales, it is still much worse than Nokia, because Nokia's sales in the first quarter reached 21 million units, with a market share of nearly 40 This is definitely a shocking data, almost the sum of Leaf Technology and BlackBerry phones.
But from another point of view, if you calculate it in terms of net profit, Nokia plus Blackberry, and the total profit of all the top ten manufacturers in the top ten are far less profitable than Leaf Technology, which is why the outside world respects Leaf Technology so much.
Glancing at the report, Eliza was not surprised by the result, on the contrary, she would be surprised if it didn't.
Just as she put down the report, she casually flipped through her phone again, the screen was pitch black, and there was no reminder signal.
"That damn nasty," she shook her head in disappointment.
In fact, she has been holding her mobile phone in her hand for the past few days, just worried that she would accidentally miss a call, but to her disappointment, the call has never been called.
Just when she put the phone on the desk, the phone rang, and her first instinct was to snatch the phone on the desk, and when she looked at it, she found that it was the phone on the desk that rang, not the mobile phone, and there was a wry smile of disappointment.
"Miss Moon, in ten minutes, you have a very important meeting to start, you asked me to remind you yesterday" grabbed the phone, and the voice of the secretary came.
"Okay, thank you, I know" Eliza hung up the phone again, not to mention that she really forgot about it.
It's like the damn guy seems to have completely forgotten about her.
"No wonder people say, man, no one has a conscience," Eliza shook her head and stood up.
But soon, there was another knock on the office door.
As Eliza asked to come in, the secretary pushed open the door and walked in, holding a FedEx in his hand, and delivered it to Eliza, "This is the courier just delivered." ”
"Okay, thank you," Eliza took a look at it, and immediately laughed, like a blooming flower.
When the secretary was about to quit, she secretly looked at her boss, she rarely saw Eliza smile so happily, this boss seemed to be a very clear and clear image of a strong woman, when had you ever seen her smile so feminine?
In fact, the way she laughs is really charming" Even as a woman's secretary, I can't help but admire it in my heart.
The courier envelope contained three things, a ticket to the finals, a plane ticket to Moscow, and a paper card.
There is a funny cartoon character on the paper card playing aggrieved, and next to it is a paragraph.
"I believe that when you received this courier, you must be scolding me in your heart, what a great wrong, I am so busy every day, and I also help you book air tickets and hotels, and send it to you, if you want to be scolded like this, I can only vomit blood"
Next is the name of the Moscow hotel he booked for Eliza, Svisot Krasnihaum.
"You still have a little conscience," Eliza smiled as she took the courier envelope and smiled, her heart filled with something called satisfaction.
Sometimes, a woman's requirements are really simple and simple, but not all men understand.
Hotel Svisot Krasnihaumer is located in the center of Moscow, in the south of the Moskva River, not far from the Luzhniki Stadium, about 10 kilometers away.
This hotel is a famous five-star hotel in Moscow, with a height of more than 30 floors, very complete facilities, and there are not many people around.
Ye Qiu chartered two floors of the hotel, one of which was dedicated to the rest of the first-team players, coaching staff and staff, and the other for the families of the players and employees, and the team arranged a charter flight to take them from London to Moscow, only a day later than the team.
Tottenham Hotspur arrived in Moscow at noon on the 19th, and Ye Qiu also got the news from Ferguson before, and they arrived at about this time, but he did not meet Manchester United at the airport, but he saw a lot of Manchester United fans who were ready to pick up the airport, and they were all British fans who arrived in Moscow in advance.
Of course, the same group of Tottenham Hotspur fans in white jerseys who waited patiently at the airport were no less than the Manchester United fans, and when the team appeared, this group of Tottenham Hotspur fans went completely crazy.
From the airport to the hotel, the road is full of advertisements and flags for the Champions League final, and the city is bound to be affected by this game in the next few days, and everyone's attention is bound to be on this Champions League final.
The bus passed by white and red everywhere, either Tottenham Hotspur fans, or Manchester United fans, all over the road, sweeping everywhere with your eyes along the way, you can sweep both colors.
"That's crazy, isn't it?" Franck Ribery has played in the Champions League final and is no stranger to such scenes.
Similarly, Van Persie, Lionel Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Mascherano and others have also experienced the big scenes of the Champions League final when they were at Chelsea and Ajax, so they all seem to be a little bit familiar with it, and like David Beckham, he has become numb to this kind of big scene.
Why is the final so special? It is because it can condense your past year, or even a lifetime of hard work, into just 90 minutes, no matter how you have behaved in the past, good or bad, your performance in 90 minutes determines whether you will go to heaven or hell, which is extremely cruel
"I heard that the scalpers out there have inflated the price of tickets to thousands of pounds, my God, I still have three in my hand, take them out and sell them" Ribery was a bit of a hooligan, never knew what he was afraid of, even now, many other players were nervous to death, but he still looked relaxed and joked.
Ye Qiu is also aware of the internal atmosphere of the team, especially the nervousness of many players, and he has also made arrangements for this, but he also does not want the players to be too relaxed, because too much relaxation can easily lead to nervousness in the game and lack of concentration, so many times, psychology is really difficult to grasp and master, and can only rely on the players themselves.
Tottenham Hotspur gave each player 30 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 immediate family members, in order to be able to put the right amount of pressure on the players, after all, no one wants to lose such a game in front of their relatives and friends.
It's a pressure, but it's also a motivator
But the reality is often that thirty tickets to the finals are simply not enough, so Roland has become the team's most popular guy in the past few days, almost every hour of every day, someone promises him to dinner, in exchange for him to help get some tickets, this fat man is said to be full of belly.
Finally arrived at the hotel, it has completely become a gathering place for Tottenham Hotspur fans, more than 30 floors of five-star hotels, except for the two floors of Tottenham Hotspur, and some rooms for relatives and friends booked by players through the club, all the others have been booked out by Tottenham Hotspur fans.
Even in Moscow, it's hard to book a hotel anymore, because over the next two days, the city will be flooded with more than 60,000 out-of-town fans, including more than 40,000 British fans, and it is conceivable that the demand for hotels here will be completely outstripped.
Although there was no prior appointment, it was really a coincidence that Manchester United's hotel was north of the Moscow River, while Tottenham Hotspur's hotel was south of the Moscow River.
The Luzhniki Stadium, the host venue for this Champions League final, is next to the Moskva River.
With the arrival of Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United in Moscow, the atmosphere of the Champions League final in Moscow has also begun to become tense, and the confrontation between the fans of the two teams has gradually escalated.
The two teams participating in the finals are fully engaged in the preparation of the most difficult games.