What is the origin of Chen Weixing, who criticized Zhang Yiming?
Author: Yang Mei
来源：商业人物（ID：biz-leaders）
On the same day that Internet celebrity Cheng Qian desperately provoked Zhou Hongyi on the roundtable forum, a certain celebrity waved a chaotic fist at Zhang Yiming in the circle of friends.
In the business field, this big name is louder than Cheng Qian's Title, he is Chen Weixing, the founder of Kuaidi Taxi. Depending on the position, the way of making a move is also different. Cheng Qian just cursed Zhou Hongyi on the spot, and Chen Weixing gave Zhang Yiming a "god-like sentence".
He sentenced Zhang Yiming to be the "Demon King of the Living World" because the AI algorithm cultivated by Douyin was to control human consciousness and violate the ethics of heaven. By posting three moments of friends in a row, he grabbed a prescription for Zhang Yiming: to influence Zhang Yiming with love, to do everything possible to help, forgive and tolerate Zhang Yiming, and to invite global psychiatrists to treat Zhang Yiming. As for the ultimate goal, it is to help Zhang Yiming modify the intention of the AI, so that Zhang Yiming's AI can learn to love humans.
At least on the surface, Chen Weixing's punch seems to be more decent than Cheng Qian's. The absence of visible causes and consequences precludes the possibility of Cheng Qian's embarrassment, and the wording, which is full of worries about the future of humanity, religious and even psychiatric jargon, seems at first glance to call for the good of technology. What's more, thanks to the $10 million, Chen Weixing also occupies the moral high ground.
In 2012, when Byte Series A financing, Chen Weixing invested 10 million US dollars. Although Chen Weixing chose to withdraw in the B round in 2014, it is estimated that he has obtained at least 5 times the return on investment from Zhang Yiming. How can a person who has helped you make money have a grudge? How can a person who has invested money for you hate you? According to Chen Weixing, he is anxious for Zhang Yiming because he is grateful.
I deeply suspect that Chen Weixing, who was also born in 1983 with Zhang Yiming, learned from my father, who was born in 1963, what is the secret art of being a father - beating you and scolding you because I love you deeply. Switching to me, I didn't know how to fight back.
But Zhang Yiming doesn't have the same distress as me. An investor more than ten years ago obviously did not have a fetters that he could not get rid of like his original family. The Douyin public relations department did not even release some inside information to the self-media as it did when facing Mu Yan's bombardment half a year ago. The entire byte system turned a deaf ear to this, as if it was not on the same Internet as Chen Weixing at all.
Since January 5th, for a week, Chen Weixing has still severely condemned Zhang Yiming and Douyin on Weibo and video accounts, with only double digits of retweets. He seemed to be facing a cloud of air.
Although Zhang Yiming regarded Chen Weixing's attack as an overreach. But Chen Weixing still has a certain level of magnitude in the eyes of ordinary people of my generation. In addition to being the founder of Kuaidi Taxi, he is also the chairman of Fenchem Holdings, an accomplished investor + blockchain influencer. The 41-year-old graduated from Zhejiang University and started his business almost at the same time as Zhang Yiming. When Zhang Yiming tossed the 99th room, his web game "Magic Hall" became famous for a while, and when Zhang Yiming founded Toutiao, he had already made a lot of money from the web games "Dream City" and "Wukong Q Biography", and became Zhang Yiming's investor.
Since then, he has launched Kuaidi Taxi, and together with Wang Xiaofei and Mu Yan, he became the first batch of students of Lakeside University, founded Pancheng Capital, entered the blockchain field, and successively invested in many unicorn projects such as Li Auto, Tiger Securities, and Leapmotor, as well as many blockchain projects such as Binance, Huobi, Qtum, and TRON. In the field of wealth, I can't reach it.
Why is there so much anger when a person is accompanied by the sound of money at a young age? According to the information, I found two strange clues.
One is to enter the blockchain space. As we all know, there is no mutual hatred, no blocks. The quarrels of the classical Internet tycoons are still concerned about emotional intelligence and decency, while the scolding wars of the blockchain tycoons often do not tear their bottoms and refuse to stop. From Tron founder Justin Sun to OK Coin founder Xu Xingxing, Huobi founder Li Lin, and Lebit CEO Jiang Zhuoer, all of them are frequent.
Chen Weixing is a master here. In 2018 alone, he had a scolding war with Mu Yan of Baihe.com, Zhang Ying of Jingwei Venture Capital, Su Liang, chief scientist of Guojin Investment, Zhu Xiaohu of Jinsha Venture Capital, Li Xiaolai, the "richest man in Bitcoin", and others. scolded Mu Yan for bragging, and the white paper deadlifted all kinds of bigwigs on the platform; scolded Zhu Xiaohu, who praised himself as an investment genius, for cutting the leeks of investors in the later stage of the project; and scolded Li Xiaolai for being the pseudo-richest man and owed 30,000 bitcoins.
According to Chen Weixing, he is for blockchain beliefs. However, according to the past law of scolding in the blockchain field, there may also be such considerations: the fastest way to return to the big guy circle is to fight against the big guy. After all, after the merger with Didi in 2015, Chen Weixing lost his fame as before. After leaving the scene in disgrace, he once conceived of using blockchain as a taxi.
Another clue was obtained from Chen Weixing's video account. Through these videos, you can see the spiritual portrayal of an entrepreneur who once stood on the cusp of the times: 5 years ago, Chen Weixing suffered from anxiety back pain, the pain was unbearable, he couldn't sleep, he could only take a lot of sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs, and he couldn't go out of the room for three months.
In order to treat his back pain, he went abroad to recuperate, married his wife, who was good at yoga, and sought doctors from Yale and Harvard. In the end, it was determined that one's illness was not just a physical cause, but a psychological one. Finally, through psychological therapy, philosophical, Buddhist and theological exploration, he reshaped his own model of consciousness and was able to recover. This also became the reason why he was vigilant and angrily reprimanded Zhang Yiming for controlling human consciousness.
Let's be honest, look at these mysterious, theological, and psychological videos. My perception is that this is a psychological anxiety and stress problem caused by people who have been given themselves a mission to God for a long time, but in the flashy vanity fairs such as venture capital circles and currency circles full of bubbles, alternating rounds of excitement and disillusionment, and finally finding themselves unable to really change human beings and carry the mission of human civilization like Musk (or even Zhang Yiming). As he said, for a long time, his head could not stop thinking and could not be empty.
muttered a few words, and I seemed to see a combination of Sun Yuchen + Shao Yibo. Compared with Sun Yuchen, a colleague in the currency circle, he seems to have a more sense of morality and cares more about reputation, and compared with Shao Yibo, an entrepreneurial predecessor who has been pursuing and exploring spiritual liberation since early on, he seems to have not practiced deeply.
Healed of his back pain, he once again seemed to think he had mastered the truth like God. He was vigilant against the ethical problems of science and technology, such as fragmentation of thinking, information cocoon, and consciousness control. And for this reason, he fired at Zhang Yiming and decided to re-emerge and create a new social media platform, Deadline, which is scheduled to be launched at the end of August this year. The ultimate goal is to restore the excellent culture of gentleness and humility of the Chinese nation in 5 years and 10 years. He named the project "Project 5210" (homonym "I love you").
Obviously, this made Zhang Yiming unable to reply. Compared with Mu Yan half a year ago, Zhang Yiming and Zhang Nan couldn't read back because they sent WeChat, and they felt that they were being treated slowly and angrily reprimanded Douyin for being involved in pornography, and they couldn't reply. After all, at that time, Mu Yan also mentioned some specific problems of products. And now, what Chen Weixing wants to discuss with Zhang Yiming is the starry sky above his head and the moral law in his heart.
As the largest Internet company today, Zhang Yiming has not been scolded once or twice.
At the 3rd National Young Entrepreneurs Summit in 2020, Guo Guangchang criticized Zhang Yiming by name, talking about the problem of recommendation algorithms, and he bombarded "news cannot be said to be what users want to watch, especially if it has not been verified by truth or falsehood."
In 2022, Dangdang's official Weibo shouted to Zhang Yiming, saying that the incident between Chen Chunhua and Huawei originated from pirated booksellers and individual self-media to attract traffic to the sale of pirated books. "Pirated bookstores are very active in Toutiao and Douyin. Headlines' pursuit of traffic has become the magic finger of pirated booksellers. ”
It is obvious to all that Zhang Yiming did not make any positive response to all of the above. The only thing that can be seen in the follow-up is that a month after Dangdang's shouting, Douyin e-commerce held an "Open Day for Book Copyright Protection" to crack down on book piracy and delete more than 60,000 infringing links.
As for the algorithm black box to let users be trapped in the information cocoon, and the creator is trapped in the algorithm furnace, it is already a cliché. Looking at the current Internet, almost every platform has its own recommendation algorithm, and Douyin alone seems to be a little insufficient.
Especially in the face of an investor who used to talk about business with him, he suddenly talked about business ethics. How do you ask Zhang Yiming to reply? What's more, time has changed, with Zhang Yiming's current status in the rivers and lakes, does Chen Weixing still have room to talk to him on an equal footing? In his video account, even Chen Weixing himself bluntly said that he wanted to meet Zhang Yiming through relationships but couldn't.
No matter how perfect business ethics are, they need to be practiced in the process of engaging in business activities. Chan's new social media platform won't go live until at least seven months later. Without commercial entities, it is a bit of a fantasy to start talking about a more equitable sharing of benefits to all human beings, and the establishment of an ideal order that is consistent with justice and humanity.
Chen Weixing may not need Zhang Yiming's reply the most, but a new project that can really be handled.
*Title image | Visual China