Hollywood Hunter

Simon only knew that a group of girls had come to Los Angeles. He didn't care to pay too much attention to other details, as they were all arranged by the people below. When girl A mentioned it, she just smiled and shook her head: "No need, I've been so busy these days, I don't have time to deal with them."

Simon's busy schedule was mainly due to the birthdays of the six little ones who were born together last year.

It is said that after celebrating the birthday of Inas' little Toby in New York yesterday, Simon flew back overnight, but tonight, he still has to set off again, and the destination is Milan, Italy.

Carla Bruni put her little one Christopher's birthday in a mountain mansion on the shores of Lake Como.

He also said that the autumn scenery in Milan is very beautiful now.

blah blah.

Simon didn't object either.

When girl A heard Simon mentioning this, she paused, and couldn't help but said, "Boss, there's no need for me to run around like this."

Simon opened an investment plan for Nokia's plan to increase and expand the Latin American market. Hearing this, he looked up at Alison and said with a smile, "Aside from other things, I still like to be in Los Angeles in the morning. But the feeling of being able to stay in Milan, I personally think that this is actually a very romantic thing. A, you have to know, if a person is only trapped in one or a few places in his life, it is really a very romantic thing. Sad thing, the world is so big."

When the man said that, of course Girl A had no objection, she lowered her head and started to help her boss tidy up the desk.

Simon glanced at the girl opposite, smiled, and motioned to his side: "Come, stand here."

understand this is called.

Girl a obediently turned around the desk and stood beside her boss.

Simon continued to flip through the documents with one hand, and hugged the waist of the girl beside him with the other, feeling Xinran's daughter's fragrance, and deliberately sighed: "This is also one of the great joys of life."

Girl A really wanted to snuggle up, but the man didn't order her, so she just stood obediently, hesitated a little, and whispered: "Boss, just now, I was jealous."

"Admit your mistake actively, then you won't be punished."

"..."

Xiao Xiao was silent for a while, but girl A still said, "I will be punished."

"Then, go to Milan with me at night, and punish you on the way."

"Um."

He agreed with a little satisfaction in his tone, glanced at the documents his boss was looking through, and took the initiative to find a topic, so as to delay the time he could spend by his side: "Boss, Nokia has developed rapidly in recent years, but you seem to be Not satisfied?"

Nokia has surpassed Motorola a few years ago to become the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, and currently occupies more than 40% of the global mobile phone market.

Not only that, Nokia is now the world's largest manufacturer of communication base stations, and also has a global market share of more than 30%.

It stands to reason that with such a result, it is difficult for anyone to criticize Nokia.

However, as a person close to her, girl A can clearly understand that her boss is obviously still not very satisfied.

Hearing what Girl A said, Simon nodded, tidied up a bit, and said, "Nokia, um...some of the positioning of the two major business segments has been reversed."

In fact, she could still guess some of her boss' thoughts, but girl A pretended not to know: "What?"

"Mobile phones and base stations are two major business segments," Simon said, "Let's talk about mobile phones first. Although Nokia's market share is still expanding, on the other hand, the average price of its mobile phone products is declining rapidly. It is beneficial to occupy more markets, but it also means a rapid decline in the profit level of stand-alone phones. I don’t want Nokia to become a cheap mobile phone manufacturer. Furthermore, in terms of base stations, the opposite is true. However, what I hope is that Nokia can pass low-cost mobile phones in this regard. price strategy, occupy more markets, and attack other competitors. You must know that the base station business actually represents the standard setting of communication technology. The larger the market share of this part, the more fundamental we will have in the entire mobile communication industry. standard advantage."

After listening to her boss, girl a nodded her head, but said: "However, boss, Nokia's choice is also in line with the market trend."

Simon nodded slightly.

Of course I understand.

The current 3G network is still under construction, and the popularity of mobile Internet is still very low. Therefore, semi-smart phones such as the iberry produced by Tinkber are far from reaching the mainstream level of the market.

Feature phones are the mainstream.

Traditional feature phones, even under the impetus of the Westeros system, have gradually added accessories such as digital music player functions or camera functions. However, limited by factors such as price, similar products are only in the early promotion stage, and the functions Relatively simple ordinary function phones that are only used to make and receive calls or send and receive text messages are the mainstream.

In such a market environment, it is actually not easy for functional phones to differentiate themselves.

Therefore, in addition to ensuring solid basic functions, the low price strategy has become the best solution for a mobile phone manufacturer to expand the market.

Nokia is exactly that.

Although there are some high-end flagship products under its banner, more than 40% of Nokia's global market now consists of mostly low-priced basic functional phones, and Nokia continues to launch cheaper mobile phones, thus constantly pulling down The average price for the entire mobile phone business.

Correspondingly, the average profit level is also declining.

On the other hand, the reason why Nokia, together with several other communication manufacturers in Northern Europe, can stand out in a small corner is also because of its own market environment factors that have created a mobile communication industry.

With the rapid development of communication, and in the conversion stage from analog communication to digital communication, manufacturers such as Nokia and Ericsson were lucky to obtain a large number of digital communication technology patents.

Until many years later, these manufacturers are actually still eating this part of their capital.

Compared with the low-price strategy of mobile phone products, the relatively high-price strategy of Nokia's base station business is precisely because of the monopoly of technology.

The West does not have the habit of trying to make products as cheap as cabbage once a certain technology has been broken through later in China. Since it has a technological advantage, of course it has to earn more.

This is again what Simon doesn't want.

After all, Simon knew that the Western communication equipment manufacturers were overwhelmed by several Chinese giants. If Europe and the United States hadn’t been unable to afford to turn the tables, there would have been no such companies as Nokia and Ericsson.

In general, the pricing strategy that seems to conform to the market choice is obviously not a long-term solution from the perspective of Simon as a latecomer.

Perhaps the low price trend of feature phones is difficult to reverse, but in terms of basic base station equipment, Simon feels that it can be changed.

After continuing to chat with girl A for a while, Simon made a decision. He happened to ask for Europe. This time, he went to Finland by the way to have a good talk with the head of Nokia, Jorma Ollila.

After a day's work, Simon returned to Cape Dume Manor, had dinner, and departed again at eight o'clock, boarding his own Boeing 767 at Los Angeles International Airport and flying directly to Milan, Italy.

After a journey of about 12 hours, including a 9-hour time difference, I arrived in Milan in the afternoon of October 21st.

Some little guy's birthday party happens to be in the evening.

Carla Bruni is an Italian. In the early years, the whole family avoided the gangs. Yes, Italy back then, or Italy now, is the same anyway. Many top pyramids chose to immigrate because of the deteriorating social order in this country. Now, When I returned to my own country again, there was no problem at all.

The women and children of Simon Westeros, at first glance, are the richest man in the world, a super fat sheep, and one ticket can easily feed ten lifetimes.

The problem is, even now, the underground world of Italy continues to spread the word "Atrocities of Westeros", that is a big devil who is so ruthless that the entire huge family has been wiped out of the world, such a guy, you go Kidnapping for extortion, what you get is not money, it is more likely to be a ticket to hell, and it is the kind that brings the whole family together.

The result of the whole thing is that although Simon's children are now scattered all over the world, certain things have not been encountered so far.

In fact, it is not absolutely not.

Some little thieves who don't have enough brains and haven't fully considered the consequences can't do this kind of thing at all under the strict security system of the Westeros family. And the underground forces that have the ability to do these things know the consequences very well, so they won't do it at all.

Of course, even so, Simon has never relaxed the security work of himself and those around him.

After all, to reach the current position, one must have enough awareness.

For example, Simon will never take the risk of taking a convertible now.

Autumn in Milan is indeed beautiful.

On the shores of Lake Como in the north of the city, in autumn, the fiery red, golden yellow or dark green fields are intertwined, and being in it is like entering a fairy tale world.

Birthday parties start in the evening.

Although there is no such energy as Sophia, as a fashion celebrity, especially in the past two years, he has also put on a certain label, and even mothers are expensive according to their children. Carla Bruni has indeed invited many VIPs from various circles in Europe to participate in her son's 1st birthday party.

In a way, this is also an announcement.

Before that, even though many people knew about some little guys, there was still something behind them.

Now, the little guy's 1st birthday is not only celebrated with great fanfare, but Simon Westero, the father, also attends in person, which is obviously a public recognition of the identities of Bruni and his son. Further rises all boats.

Compared with the six women at the same time last year, apart from Heidi Klum who was kicked out, Carla Bruni is also the one who has her own ideas. After all, before being labeled as a certain label, the famous ' The Banshee' nickname is not for nothing. Someone once said that taking Carla Bruni is like a man wearing the most precious Rolex watch, which is a status symbol. However, on the other hand, why is someone not the prey of the "Eat Banshee"?

Simon's attitude is also very clear.

Except for the closest few women, for others, even if they have his children, they don't necessarily have to be permanently bound. If they want to leave, there is no problem.

If you're not planning on leaving, though, enjoying the perks of being a Westerosi woman, play it safe.

Otherwise, Simon will not be polite.

On Carla Bruni's side, although this woman obviously had a lot of ideas, after the child was born, she deliberately ran to far away Europe, lived here most of the time, and used Simon's big tiger skin to do a lot of things. There are few things, but the former supermodel is quite strict about Simon's red line.

This made Simon very satisfied.

The lively birthday party lasted until late at night, a certain little protagonist in name had already fallen asleep, and the carnival was still going on.

Italian parties are always lively.

Moreover, even though Carla Bruni had been by Simon's side all the time, with obvious intentions, some notes with phone numbers were unknowingly stuffed in Simon's pocket.

it's the next morning

A girl gave something to her boss.

Inside the mountain villa in the early autumn morning.

After a certain woman drank a lot of wine last night and was tortured until the early morning, it was obviously impossible to get up too early today.

Simon still only slept until seven o'clock.

Probably because of the time difference.

However, the body is too good, and I don't feel tired.

For breakfast, choose a terrace in the mountain villa, just facing the lake, mountains and the sun from near to far.

After having breakfast with her boss, girl A took out a dozen of various notes with phone numbers written on them.

This was discovered when I was sorting out my boss' coat last night.

Simon also flipped through it with great interest, and the girl next to him was helping to recall.

Speaking of it, the Italian girl is still very much in line with Simon's aesthetics, such as a certain golden rose cave princess who is still in the collection.

Moreover, over the years, Simon has also discovered that Italian girls can be divided into two types, one is Latin style, with a hot body and darker skin, and the other is Eastern European style, the biggest feature is that the skin is very fair, The facial features are soft, very close to the aesthetics of oriental people, such as the golden rose cave princess is a typical example.

Obviously, Simon is more inclined to the latter.

As for the once famous Monica Bellucci, it is probably somewhere in between.

In addition, the more well-known Italian models are often biased towards the latter style. After all, if you want to walk on the runway, you need to be tall enough to be fishy, ​​and a Latin girl with a protruding front and back is not suitable.

Discussing with girl A in this way is a rare leisure time.

In the end, of course, there was no result.

After all, last night's guests were basically selected by a certain woman, and obviously they would not intentionally invite the opposite sex who might become her enemy.

So until after nine o'clock, Bruni got up, and after the woman had eaten a late breakfast, everyone rushed to Lake Como, rowed and fished together, and had lunch directly on the boat. Of course, he would definitely not bring a little guy who has just turned one year old.

After playing in Milan for a day, Simon set off again early the next morning, flying to Helsinki, the capital of Finland.

I also only stayed here for one day, and discussed some issues that Simon had been imagining with Jorma Ollila. On the second day, I set off again and flew back to New York, because October 23 was another little guy’s birthday. .