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Wanmen University, running away overnight?
Not only did the VIP group disband in the early hours of the morning, but the cadets woke up to find themselves kicked out of the group.
Even internal employees suddenly couldn't log in to the company's app.
According to netizens, the staff of Wanmen this morning's shift is sauce aunt:
People came to the company and just saw the VIP group being dissolved.
Yesterday's salary was not paid, and this morning CEO Tong Zhe can no longer be contacted.
Look again, good guys, the company has been included in the list of abnormal operations in 2017:
And just last year, on the 9th anniversary of Wanmen, Tong Zhe, the "biggest IP" of Wanmen, also left such a "bold statement" in Zhihu:
What the hell is going on here?
"China's First Online University"
It is a university that claims to provide lifelong online learning services, and it also claims to be "China's first online university".
Its brand name first appeared in 2012, and the company was officially established in 2014.
△ Image source Wanmen University official micro
The homepage introduces its service content covering the workplace, examination and further education, language, university, middle school and primary school, with more than 1,000 copyright courses, and the presentation form is live broadcast + recording:
△ 10,000 good courses official website
The founder is Tong Zhe, who has a background in theoretical physics from the Department of Physics of Peking University and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris.
In his own words, Wanmen University is described as "a person who organizes education, makes his own open classes, and invites better people to record open classes."
At the same time, its name Wanmen harmonic one-MEN, the meaning of the homepage of the official website is:
The slogan that the school has been shouting is also to pay attention to "fair and quality education" and promote the solution of the problem of uneven distribution of educational resources.
Just last October, Wanmen University also launched a vigorous "3600 hours of study enough to return full money" lifelong VIP class activity:
Lifetime VIP is a featured product of Wanmen, with "one-time payment, continuous learning" as the selling point, and the price is as high as 20,000+.
CEO Tong Zhe also said in the group:
The ninth anniversary of Wanmen also saved some money to give an opportunity to give back to old users.
But in fact, for many years, Wanmen University has been questioned.
The first is for the course content of Wanmen University itself.
Many users have reported after purchasing the course that the explanation of many subjects is shallow and completely inconsistent.
△ The source of the picture is known as an anonymous answerer
In particular, its short courses in theoretical physics, as well as the founder's speeches such as "Helping to Learn from General Physics to String Theory", have aroused many doubts, believing that it is simplifying the complex learning process into a fast-food consumption.
The second is the propaganda method of Wanmen University.
Many former practitioners have reported that their propagandists are too hasty to make quick gains:
And some of the activities called "free" that it has launched are also the most criticized points in its publicity.
In the activity of scanning the code and sending the circle of friends of Wanmen University to obtain courses for free, the last course received was originally free, and there were compresses that could not be unzipped...
After this, the students who originally participated in the course inevitably had a feeling of "becoming a free labor force for promotion".
The last one is the many doubts surrounding the founder Tong Zhe.
The missing Tong Zhe
Speaking of Tong Zhe himself, wanmen's official promotional materials once quoted such a comment:
The IP traffic of the two words "Tong Zhe" alone is worth more than 100 million.
His biography is indeed fascinating enough:
He was sent to Peking University with the first and second prizes of the National Physics Competition for Middle School Students in Fujian Province.
Later, he was admitted to the undergraduate + master's program of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with the top ten results in the world.
There is also a "legendary story" of "giving up the full prize of ETH Zurich and resolutely returning to China to pursue education".
But in fact, the above-mentioned resume, which is recognized by fans, has been repeatedly questioned by fraud.
Tong Zhe also admitted in his answer that he did not get an undergraduate degree from Peking University.
Because of the academic system of Peking University, I only studied for three years, less than four years of undergraduate graduation requirements, so Peking University let me choose, you can issue me a Peking University certificate or Peking University college degree.
I chose an associate degree from Peking University.
As for the master's degree of the Paris Master, his own description is that he got the "Master 1 degree of the Paris Master".
However, many netizens pointed out that the graduation requirements of the Paris Higher Division Master are L3+M1+M2, and Tong Zhe did not meet the graduation requirements when he got L3+M1, that is to say, Tong Zhe could not get the Master's Degree Certificate of Paris Higher Division.
I was caught up in the controversy over the falsification of my resume, and Wanmen University was also subject to a more severe accusation of "suspected pyramid schemes".
According to Burning Finance, the sales staff of Wanmen University once persuaded college students to pay for tens of thousands of yuan of "life VIPs" through Huabei and Jingdong White Strips.
And such a radical, persuasion sales behavior is because there is a high rebate behind it.
The lawyer pointed out that this business model has the characteristics of pyramid schemes, but whether it can be characterized as a pyramid scheme needs to be determined by combining its curriculum and specific operation and management.
In addition, Wanmen University also had a large marketing campaign of "Lei Jun joining the Wanmen Lifetime VIP Community", but at that time, the relevant person in charge of Xiaomi did not confirm it.
Weibo information shows that on March 8, Tong Zhe also liked a Weibo.
But now, employees have said that they can no longer contact Tong Zhe.
Reference links: [1] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RKbWFtCmd1_nAwghAfvz8Q[2] https://m.weibo.cn/status/4749780330481558?wm=3333_2001&from=10C3293010&sourcetype=weixin