At the beginning of the new quota cycle, Shi Lei naturally needs to plan the money to be spent in this quota cycle.

Over the past year, Yao Er has been helping Shi Lei pay attention to the artworks he is referring to.

In a year's time, in fact, there have been some goals for a long time, but the collection consumption in Shi Lei's quota has always been used to build his own museum, so he has not freed up money for collection.

In this quota cycle, the museum has been built, and Shi Lei will naturally not continue to increase the investment in the museum, but is steadily preparing to collect one or two collections, so as to enrich the museum's collection. Even if the collections owned by Shi Lei are priceless, there must always be some lower-level collections mixed in, otherwise, he will be shocked as soon as he enters the door, and he should probably wonder when he walks out of the door, how did this grandson get so many world-class treasures?

After distinguishing between low-end and high-end, those priceless collections will not look so dazzling.

Therefore, it should be easy to spend this 100 million collectible investment.

The 400 million yuan spent on the city copy is even simpler, and after Shi Lei bought the land, it was time to consider building a house on it.

The part of the non-income investment is simpler, Shi Lei only needs to use it to return it to himself.

The rest is the 200 million.

The cost of 150 million is not too difficult for Shi Lei now, and what needs to be bothered is the ordinary investment amount of 50 million.

And Shi Lei still had the last installment of the yacht unpaid, so he directly transferred 40 million, converted it into euros, and reached the account of the yacht company to complete the last payment of the yacht.

After receiving the money, the other party immediately called Shi Lei to verify the payment. Then, they naturally politely talked to Shi Lei for a long time, after all, Shi Lei revealed that he had plans to continue to buy yachts in this year.

Thinking that there was only 100 million left in the ordinary consumption quota of this quota cycle, Shi Lei was not in a hurry, so he just politely said that he would contact them again if necessary.

Immediately, Shi Lei flew to the United States again.

The destination is, of course, Silicon Valley, and the house here in Atherton has not been to live in a long time.

After resting for two days and reversing the jet lag, Shi Lei came to the company and got the projects screened by the company in the past six months.

Shi Lei had already greeted the people of the company, so before Shi Lei came to the company, the company's staff had already re-contacted these projects for investment, and eliminated some projects that had found investment, and the rest were those they thought had investment value but had not yet found investment.

After Shi Lei browsed them one by one, he found that it was normal for these projects to not find investment, because there was really nothing new, and they were basically repeating other people's old paths. In fact, it doesn't hurt to throw a vote, but the result will not be too good.

After learning that ordinary investment actually has a continuation effect, Shi Lei is not as urgent as before to spend this money.

He threw those projects in the trash and let the staff continue to collect feasible projects.

In a place like Silicon Valley, there is never a shortage of projects, and while waiting for the company to collect projects for investment, Shi Lei went to New York.

After settling with Wei Xingyue, he found a design company that he hoped would help him build a new home.

When I heard that it was a mansion with an area of more than 10,000 square meters, the design company was particularly enthusiastic. The whole company revolved around this project, and in just three days, Shi Lei came up with the first set of design plans.

Of course, this is only a rough design, and there is still a long way to go before the final finished solution.

Shi Lei put forward a few of his own ideas, and the other party added them one by one, and after two days of running-in, they basically reached an agreement. Next, it is time for the design company to carry out the complete design, which will take at least a month.

There is also news from companies in Silicon Valley, they have collected five projects, waiting for Shi Lei's review.

Shi Lei returned to Atherton and picked out two of the five projects.

These two projects have already sought angel investment, and they are now doing Series A financing.

For the first project, they hope to achieve a valuation of $90 million, but the current valuation given to them by American investment funds is around $70 million. So their path to financing was not smooth.

The second project, with a valuation of up to 120 million, is a relatively popular project, and in addition to Shi Lei, there are four other investment companies that are also interested in it.

This also means that if Shi Lei decides to invest in this project, it will be difficult to get all ten points, and he will need to co-invest with some of the other four companies.

Of course, it is not impossible, after all, in the end, it depends on who gives the best conditions.

But Shi Lei doesn't mind co-investing with others, he only has an ordinary investment quota of 50 million, and according to the current exchange rate, it is only about 7.5 million dollars when converted into dollars, and he doesn't want to take out his own funds to invest.

The next day, Shi Lei asked someone from the company to contact the company of the second project and meet directly with their CFO.

Since Shi Lei's investment company has invested in two projects in Silicon Valley, and both projects seem to be working well, the company is also quite sincere in its involvement in Shi Lei.

After some contact, Shi Lei finally understood why this company was obviously more optimistic and did not worry about investors, but it has not been able to finalize the A round.

They don't want to involve too many investors in the A round, and they want to make their company's shareholding structure as simple as possible, which leads them to prefer a single company to invest, but this is obviously not in line with the investment habits of Americans.

Therefore, they are the most enthusiastic about Shi Lei, because whether it is Shi Lei's investment in Silicon Valley or his investment in Huaxia, it shows that he seems to prefer to invest alone rather than join forces with other companies.

The CFO of the other party said: "In fact, someone has already given us a valuation of 130 million, and even this figure they said that they can discuss it again, but their fund, the composition of the shares itself is very complicated, and this investment is only led by them, and at least two funds need to be involved." When I told Mr. Shi about this, I was not greedy and wanted Mr. Shi to give a higher valuation. We can calculate the valuation according to 120 million, but from Mr. Shi's consistent investment policy, we want you to be a sole proprietorship. ”

Shi Lei nodded in understanding.

This company's project is in the direction of microprocessors, and before meeting them, Shi Lei also contacted the domestic side.

China has always been at a disadvantage in terms of microprocessors, and the company's R&D direction can complement the domestic side. Or to put it more clearly, the company's R&D direction can make up for the shortcomings in the field of domestic microprocessor R&D.

Therefore, Shi Lei asked: "You want the composition of shares to be simpler, then, I also have my needs." Would you like to leave the United States?"