Chapter 1414 Mutual Needs

As a new quota cycle begins, Shi Lei naturally needs to plan the money he will spend in this quota cycle.

Over the past year, Yao Er has been helping Shi Lei pay attention to Zhi's collection of art.

In one year's time, he actually had some goals, but Shi Lei's collection consumption had been used to build his own museum, so he didn't have any money for collection.

During this quota period, the museum has been built, so Shi Lei will naturally not continue to invest in the museum, but will be preparing to collect one or two collections in a safe manner, so as to enrich the museum's collection. Even if the collections Shi Lei owns are priceless, there must be some lower-level collections mixed in. Otherwise, you will be shocked as soon as you walk in, and you will probably wonder when you walk out, how did this grandson get so many worlds? A top-notch treasure?

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

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

It was easier to spend the 400 million yuan in the city dungeon. After Shi Lei bought the land, it was time to consider building a house on it.

The non-revenue investment part is even simpler. Shi Lei only needs to use it to return it to himself.

The rest is the 200 million.

An expenditure of 150 million is not something too difficult for Shi Lei now. What he needs to worry about is the ordinary investment amount of 50 million.

Moreover, Shi Lei still had to pay the last installment of the yacht, so he directly transferred 40 million, converted it into euros, and credited it to the yacht company's account, completing the final payment for the yacht.

After the other party received the payment, he immediately called Shi Lei to verify the payment. Then, they naturally politely greeted Shi Lei for a long time. After all, Shi Lei had revealed during this year that he had plans to continue to purchase yachts.

Thinking that the normal consumption limit for this quota period was only 110 million, 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 I haven’t stayed in the house in Atherton for a long time.

After two days of rest and reversing the jet lag, Shi Lei came to the company and got the projects selected by the company in the past six months.

Shi Lei had already greeted the company's people, so before Shi Lei came to the company, the company's staff had already re-contacted these projects seeking investment, eliminated some projects that had already found investment, and left the rest , all of which they think have investment value but have not yet found investment.

After Shi Lei browsed through them one by one, he found that it was normal for these projects not to find investment, because there was really nothing new and they were basically repeating the same old methods of others. In fact, it doesn't matter if you throw in one shot, but the effect will not be very good.

After understanding that ordinary investment actually had a lasting effect, Shi Lei was no longer as eager to spend the money as before.

So he threw those projects in the trash and let his staff continue to collect viable projects.

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

After lingering with Wei Xingyue for a while, he found a design company and hoped that they would help him build a brand new residence.

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

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

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

There was also news from Silicon Valley companies that they had collected five projects and were waiting for Shi Lei's review.

Shi Lei returned to Atherton and selected two projects from these five.

Both projects have already received angel investment, and are currently undergoing Series A financing.

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

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

This 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 jointly invest with some of the other four companies.

Of course, it's not impossible. After all, it all depends on who offers the best conditions.

But Shi Lei doesn't mind jointly investing with others. He only has an ordinary investment limit of 50 million. According to the current exchange rate, it is only about 7.5 million in US dollars. He doesn't want to use his own funds to invest. .

The next day, Shi Lei asked people from the company to contact the company for the second project and met directly with their CFO.

Since Shi Lei's investment company has invested in two projects in Silicon Valley, and both projects seem to be running well, this company is also quite sincere in Shi Lei's intervention.

After some contact, Shi Lei finally understood why this company, which was obviously more optimistic and had no worries about investors, had not been able to finalize the A round.

They did not want too many investors to be involved in the A round, and wanted to make the equity structure of their company as simple as possible, which led them to prefer a single company to invest, but this obviously did not conform to the investment habits of Americans.

Therefore, they were the most enthusiastic about Shi Lei, because whether it was Shi Lei's investment in Silicon Valley or his investment in Hua Xia, it showed that he seemed to be more willing to invest alone rather than join forces with other companies.

The other party's CFO said: "In fact, someone has already offered us a valuation of 130 million, and they even said that this number can be discussed again, but their fund and share structure are very complicated in themselves, and this investment is only led by them, and at least two funds need to intervene. I told Mr. Shi this not because I was greedy and wanted Mr. Shi to give a higher valuation. We can calculate the valuation based on 120 million, but from Mr. Shi's consistent investment policy, we hope that you will bid alone."

Shi Lei nodded to show his understanding.

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

China has always been at a disadvantage in microprocessors, and the research and development direction of this company can complement the domestic side. Or to put it more clearly, the research and development direction of this company can make up for the shortcomings in the field of microprocessor research and development in China.

So, Shi Lei asked: "You want a simpler share structure, then I also have my needs. Are you willing to leave the United States?"

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