Chapter 112: Iridium Star's First Client

In the United States, the status of industry and capital has never been equal. General Electric President Jack Welch, who is now in full swing, once mentioned in his autobiography that when he suffered setbacks in his career for the first time and planned to leave GE, his classmates at the University of Illinois wondered why he did not come. Wall Street, in the words of my classmates, if you want to get the attention of the CEO of this company by joining General Electric, even the best talents will need ten years, but if you choose to go to Wall Street, it only takes one year Then you can talk about financing with the CEO of General Electric.

This metaphor is also suitable for Eva, the CEO of Yota Communications. In just a few months, Eva has deeply experienced the coldness and enthusiasm of Wall Street. Now Eva has once again become the darling of Wall Street. And all of this started a week ago when the Pentagon announced that it would abandon its own plan to develop a global communication system and fully adopt Iridium's satellite system.

When Peterson first brought up the idea of ​​bringing the Pentagon in, Eva didn't take it seriously. Until the Pentagon expressed great interest in this and invited her to Arlington for further consultations on the matter. Eva hastened to tell Seryozha about it, and Seryozha was very happy when he learned about it.

"Eva, it seems that times are really going to turn around. It doesn't matter, you just agree to this matter, unless the CIA asks all the offshore financial centers in the world to modify their banking laws, otherwise they will never want to know in this life Who is Yota's behind-the-scenes boss!" Seryozha replied confidently.

Since Seryozha didn't care about Yota's cooperation with the Pentagon at all, Eva's heart was put in her stomach. So more than half a month later, Eva brought Yota's technical director, accompanied by Mr. Peterson, a partner of Blackstone, to Arlington County, Virginia, and discussed the Iridium project with officials from the intelligence and information department of the US Department of Defense. communicate.

After going through layers of strict security, Eva and others walked into this mysterious place. Everyone in the team was given a temporary badge, and they were asked not to move around at will, and the staff here could provide assistance if necessary. Eva's team naturally dare not make mistakes in the Pentagon. They followed closely behind a black female officer who was in charge of receiving them, and they didn't know how many turns they turned. Eva and the others were brought into a conference room filled with sunlight.

This meeting room is circular, with a carpet in the middle of which is printed with the logo of the Pentagon, surrounded by a single sofa to form a circle. Sitting on the sofa can see the beautiful view of the Thomas River not far away. I am afraid that this experience will never be experienced by most people in their lifetime.

Everyone waited in the room for about ten minutes. There was a knock on the door. Then an officer opened the door and immediately stood at attention and saluted. Seeing this, Eva and the others hurriedly got up. I saw two military officers in their forties or fifties entering the room.

"Mr. Peterson, Ms. Eva, welcome to the Pentagon!" The other party extended his hand to greet Peterson and Eva, and then introduced himself: "I am Brigadier General Arnold, the head of the intelligence department here, Standing next to me is Colonel Thomas, our technical chief."

"Hello, Colonel Thomas!" Eva quickly reached out to greet the other party. The other party seemed to be a little awkward in words. He looked at Eva seriously, and then stretched out his hand to shake Eva gently.

"Okay, let's get straight to the point. Thomas, let's talk about your views on Yota products first!" Brigadier General Arnold said first.

"Okay, we have conducted a detailed test on the prototype sent by your company. To be honest, I am a little surprised by your technology. Your product is much better than we expected, so technically speaking,

I tend to adopt your technology..." Although Colonel Thomas looked very serious, he highly praised Yota's products in his words, which made Eva even more confident about the second-generation Yota communication technology.

After Colonel Thomas explained the advantages of Yota technology, he raised several shortcomings, the most important of which is whether Yota's base station equipment can continue to show such excellent performance after it is sent to low earth orbit.

Eva took the initiative to say at this time: "Colonel Thomas, Brigadier General Arnold. Your worries are justified. Although we have not conducted satellite experiments, we have installed Yota's base station on the aircraft for verification, and the results have fully achieved It met our expectations, so we have full confidence in the performance of the Yota system on the satellite platform."

"Arnold, Yota has a problem with the supplier of the satellite test platform. Motorola wants to terminate our cooperation with us. I heard that Lockheed Martin has a similar set. Can we talk to them? Buy this set of technology." At this moment, Peterson, who had been silent all the time, suddenly said to Arnold.

"Mr. Peterson, Lockheed Martin, I will go to negotiate with them personally, I guess the problem should not be big, but we are more concerned about the composition of Iridium's board of directors and shareholders. If it is convenient, I would like to ask Let me introduce, because this matter is related to the security of the country, so Ms. Eva must tell the truth!" Brigadier General Arnold replied.

"Okay, Commodore Arnold, so far our investors are mainly from Japan, Western Europe, and the United States. Among them, Japanese investors have taken 15% of our equity, while European investors are mainly Columbia Bank. The shareholding is about 5%, Lehman Brothers Group in the United States and Columbia Corporation hold the same shareholding, and the rest of the shares are completely in the hands of Yota Communications, we are an out-and-out American company!" Eva said calmly replied.

"Okay, we'll do a thorough background check on Yota, we at the Department of Defense want to deal with American companies, and while many of your shareholders are foreign companies, it sounds like they're all our allies. I think The foundation of our cooperation is good. We will report this matter to the Minister of Defense, and if there is no accident, we will be able to give you a final answer in about a week." Arnold got up and said.

"Okay, I hope we can have a happy cooperation!" Eva also hurriedly stood up, stretched out her hand and said goodbye to many parties.

When he left the Pentagon, Peterson looked very relaxed. On the way back, he told Eva that she could stop worrying about the Ministry of Defense and focus on the preparations for Iridium. Eva followed Mr. Peterson's advice as earnestly as a primary school student. A week later, the Ministry of Defense really gave positive results as Peterson expected, and Iridium received its first client. What's even more pleasing is that Lockheed Martin is willing to sell its latest military communication satellite technology to Iridium, and Eva finally doesn't have to look at other people's faces.

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