The Godfather of Football

Every morning she drives out from home, passes by the Starbucks at the intersection, stops the car and buys a cup of hot coffee, drinks coffee while driving, and wanders to the company headquarters. Eliza Moon is already used to such days. .

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

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

A woman can manage a large company with more than 20,000 employees in the world. The market value is currently estimated to exceed 50 billion. Once it is listed, it can easily reach a scale of 100 billion. If such a woman does not have any ability, no one can do it. You won’t 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 Yezi Technology employees see Eliza Moon and pay attention, they will always respectfully shout, "Good morning, Miss Moon!"

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

The headquarters of Leaf Technology is located in the core area of ​​Silicon Valley, very close to Stanford University, Google and Apple. This also shows the current important position of Leaf Technology in Silicon Valley and its attraction to talents.

With the acquisition of Nortel Networks' huge patent library, Leaf Technology formed a patent company to reorganize these huge patents. This made Leaf Technology become the second largest company in the smartphone field after only two or three large companies such as Nokia and Motorola. , the technology company with the strongest patent and technology research and development capabilities.

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

After reorganizing according to patents, although Leaf Technology does not attack its opponents with patent wars, it has obtained a part of the patent sharing from many large companies such as Microsoft and Nokia. This allows Leaf Technology to no longer have to pay them patent fees when selling Zeus mobile phones in the future. There’s also no need to worry about patent litigation.

In terms of patent fees alone, each Zeus mobile phone sold can earn an extra ten dollars. Based on the current sales of Zeus mobile phones, it is expected 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 impressive. Leaf Technology has used patent licensing and other methods to tie up large companies such as Samsung and HTC. In addition to licensing mobile phone systems and some of the original patents developed by Leaf Technology, it has Among these patents of Electric Network, YeZi Technology can also charge a lot of patent fees for every mobile phone they sell.

Relying on the mobile phone system and patents, YeZi Technology is equivalent to standing at the top of the smartphone industry chain. Samsung and other large companies are completely equivalent to manufacturing and selling mobile phones for YeZi Technology, while promoting this mobile operating system.

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 the very least, Apple has been clamoring to build a mobile phone for several years, but it has yet to come up with a finished product. 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 developing a WP smartphone system, but the progress is slow. Just because of the huge patents placed there, even if they succeed in developing it in the future, it will be difficult to escape the shadow of Ye Ye Technology.

All of this was created by the mysterious boss behind it, which made the internal staff of Ye Zi Technology have a vague impression of Ye Qiu, but it was full of mystery and strong curiosity. On the contrary, it was about every day. They all met CEO Eliza Moon, and they all looked a little in awe.

The headquarters of Yezi Technology employs about 10,000 people, distributed in various departments, and more than half of them are from outside the United States. Therefore, there are a lot of things in the company every day, but Eliza, who is used to taking time out of herself, I leave all operational matters to COO Sandberg. When I come to the office every day, I just sit leisurely in the office, play with my mobile phone, and take a look at the scenery outside through the window.

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

Based on 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 will lose to Leaf Technology by several streets, not to mention that the real huge profit is not the net profit of mobile phones.

But Nokia and Motorola both have huge patent libraries. 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 wants to swallow one of them. In addition to further strengthening Leaf Technology's mobile phone research and development and manufacturing capabilities and integrating the entire industrial chain, he also wants to weaken his competitors.

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

Eliza has already begun to lay out in advance. At present, Leaf Technology has a huge cash flow. Although it cannot swallow Nokia and Motorola for the time being, what about in the future? Eliza no longer doubts Ye Qiu's judgment, so she has been preparing and will take action as soon as the opportunity comes.

For example, it has been reported in the market recently that Nokia's mobile phone business will lay off 500 people, and Motorola will also lay off 3,000 mobile phone employees. In the semiconductor field, five or six well-known companies such as Texas Instruments and AMD are laying off employees, many of whom are R\u0026D personnel. Leaf Technology is also paying attention to their layoffs and will take action when it finds a suitable one, or poach talents while the chaos is going on.

In addition, Leaf Technology has also quietly acquired five chip companies recently and established R\u0026D centers in Silicon Valley and Xiamen, China. The purpose is to build the entire industry chain of smartphones and achieve self-sufficiency to avoid being 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 in good operating conditions. On the contrary, companies like Leaf Technology, with the hot sales of Zeus mobile phones, are rising strongly. Naturally, they must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and quickly expand their strength. Otherwise, if they miss the opportunity, it will be difficult to appear again in the future.

Of course, although Leaf Technology is now rich and powerful and has abundant cash flow, it actually spends a lot of money. The annual employee salary alone is a huge expense, but more important are various R\u0026D experiments and support for scientific research institutions, such as Stanford University.

In addition, Leaf Technology is currently developing smart products in many aspects such as tablets, watches, cameras, glasses, TVs, and cars. The annual R\u0026D investment is also the bulk of Leaf Technology's expenditure. Among them, the tablet computer has reached the final stage and is expected to be launched at the end of 2008 or the beginning of 2009.

In this regard, we have to mention Ye Qiu's selfishness. The semiconductor R\u0026D center is located in Xiamen. In addition, Ye Qiu supports many R\u0026D projects of many Chinese universities every year. These are actually his selfishness. Otherwise, why are more than half of the 300 H1-B special professional temporary visas that Leaf Technology applies to the US government every year Chinese college students?

In order to pass the visa, Eliza even hired two professional immigration experts through Sandberg to solve these visa problems.

Of course, in Eliza's view, these are more of Ye Qiu's interesting personality, and she has become accustomed to it.

Thinking of this, Eliza smiled, turned around and sat at her desk, and picked up a report that the secretary had placed in front of her desk. It clearly showed the company's operating conditions and the sales of the Zeus II mobile phone launched on New Year's Day 2008.

With the launch of the Zeus II mobile phone this year, it has become the most popular product in the field of smart phones in the first half of the year. In the first three months of the first quarter, 15 million units were sold, and the second quarter was basically the same as the first quarter. This makes the global total sales of Zeus II in the first half of the year expected to reach 30 million units, surpassing BlackBerry and becoming the second largest smart phone manufacturer after Nokia. The annual sales in 2008 are also expected to exceed 65 million units.

However, if we look at sales alone, it is still far behind Nokia, because Nokia's sales in the first quarter reached 21 million units, with a market share of nearly 40%, which is absolutely a shocking data, almost the sum of Leaf Technology and BlackBerry phones.

But from another perspective, if we calculate it in terms of pure profit, the total profits of Nokia and Blackberry, or even the total profits of all the top ten manufacturers, are far less than that of Leaf Technology. This is why the outside world is so impressed with Leaf Technology.

Glancing at the report, Eliza was not surprised by the result. On the contrary, she would have been surprised if it had not been so.

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

"That damn annoying guy!" She shook her head in disappointment.

In fact, she had been holding her phone in her hand these days because she was worried that she would miss a call by accident, but to her disappointment, the call was never answered.

Just as she put the phone on the desk, the phone rang. Her first instinct was to grab the phone on the desk. When she looked at it, she found that it was the phone on the desk that rang, not the phone. She smiled bitterly in disappointment again.

"Ms. Moon, you have a very important meeting in ten minutes. You asked me to remind you yesterday!" I picked up the phone and heard the secretary's voice.

"Okay, thank you, I got it!" Eliza hung up the phone again. If she hadn't said it, she would have forgotten it.

It was as if that damn guy had completely forgotten her.

"No wonder people say that men don't have a conscience!" Eliza shook her head and stood up.

But soon, the office door was knocked again.

As Eliza asked to come in, the secretary pushed the door open and walked in, holding a FedEx in her hand and handed it to Eliza, "This is the express delivery that just arrived."

"Okay, thank you!" Eliza took it and looked at it, and immediately laughed, like a blooming flower.

When the secretary was about to leave, she secretly looked at her boss. She rarely saw Eliza laugh so happily. This boss gave people the feeling of a very clean and capable female strongman. When had she ever seen her laugh so femininely?

"In fact, she looks so charming when she smiles!" Even as a secretary of a woman, she couldn't help but admire it in her heart.

Three things were taken out of the express envelope, the finals ticket, the plane ticket to Moscow, and a paper card.

On the paper card, there was a funny cartoon character who was showing off his grievance, and there was a paragraph written next to it.

"I believe that when you received this express, you must have scolded me in your heart. It's really a great injustice. I am so busy every day, and I help you book flights and hotels, and send them to you. If I still get scolded like this, I can only vomit blood!"

Next is the name of the Moscow hotel he booked for Eliza, Svesotel Krasnyi Haomai Hotel.

"You still have some conscience!" Eliza raised the corner of her mouth, holding the express envelope and laughed, her heart was filled with something called satisfaction.

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

The Svet Krasnyi Hotel is located in the center of Moscow, south of the Moscow River, not far from the Luzhniki Stadium, about ten kilometers away.

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

Ye Qiu booked two floors of the hotel, one of which was used for the first-team players, coaching staff and staff to rest, and the other floor was provided for the families of players and employees. The team specially arranged a charter flight to send them from London to Moscow, just one day later than the team.

Tottenham Hotspur arrived in Moscow at noon on the 19th. Ye Qiu had also received news from Ferguson that they arrived at about this time, but he did not meet Manchester United at the airport, but saw many Manchester United fans who were ready to pick them up. They were all British local fans who arrived in Moscow in advance.

Of course, the fans of Tottenham Hotspur wearing white jerseys are no less impressive than those of Manchester United. They waited patiently at the airport. When the team appeared, the fans of Tottenham Hotspur went crazy.

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

The bus passed by white and red everywhere. They were either fans of Tottenham Hotspur or fans of Manchester United. They were everywhere on the road. You could see these two colors by scanning everywhere.

"It's crazy, isn't it?" Ribery played in the Champions League final, so he was not unfamiliar with such a scene.

Similarly, Van Persie, Messi, Fabregas, Mascherano and others also experienced the Champions League final when they were at Chelsea and Ajax, so they all looked a little familiar. In addition, Beckham was numb to such a big scene.

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

"I heard that the scalpers outside have already raised the price of tickets to several thousand pounds. My God, I still have three tickets in my hand. Let's sell them!" Ribery is a bit of a gangster and never knows what fear is. Even now, many other players are nervous to death, but he still looks relaxed and jokes.

Ye Qiu also realized the atmosphere within the team, especially the nervousness of many players. He also made arrangements for this, but he did not want the players to relax too much, because excessive relaxation can easily lead to a lack of nervousness in the game and a lack of concentration. Therefore, 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 finals, 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 put appropriate 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 not enough, so Roland has become the most popular guy in the team in the past few days. Almost every hour every day, someone promised to treat him to a meal in exchange for his help in getting 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. In addition to the two floors reserved by Tottenham Hotspur and some rooms provided to relatives and friends booked by players through the club, all other five-star hotels with more than 30 floors have been booked by Tottenham Hotspur fans.

Even in Moscow, it is difficult to book a hotel, because in the next two days, the city will be flooded with more than 60,000 foreign fans, including more than 40,000 British fans. It is conceivable that the hotels here will be completely in short supply.

Although there was no prior appointment, it was really a coincidence that Manchester United's hotel was located north of the Moscow River, while Tottenham Hotspur's hotel was located south of the Moscow River. The two teams stayed in two five-star hotels, which seemed to be a competition.

The Luzhniki Stadium, the host venue of this Champions League final, is next to the Moscow River.

With Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United arriving in Moscow, the atmosphere of the Champions League final in Moscow began to become tense, and the confrontation between the fans of the two teams gradually escalated. Coupled with the reputation of British fans abroad in the past, the Moscow police became cautious, fearing that they would accidentally cause any trouble.

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