You call this entrepreneurship?

Chapter 496

Judging from the current situation, "Bo Ji" is probably going to be over.

If there were only a group of people who were skirting the line on the "Bo Ji" platform, it wouldn't have to be shut down for Sina.

If only one of the two rectifications occurs, the company will not be ordered to close for three months.

If only the Ministry of Information Industry had taken action, Sina would not be facing this situation.

but……

The two incidents happened too close in time, and it seems like the person has refused to change despite repeated warnings, and has committed the crime in defiance of the law. His attitude is neither correct nor honest, and he does not take the rectification requests from his superiors seriously at all.

This one point alone is enough to make Sina very angry.

This is a challenge to the authority of the administrative department. How can we not punish them severely?
Moreover, the leader this time is the Cyberspace Administration of China, a newly established heavyweight department, and the first case it handled was the management of illegal and irregular information on "Weibo-type" platforms.

The original intention was to catch a typical example and make an example of him, but now someone has jumped out on his own, which is quite serious. Severe handling can better reflect the determination of the relevant departments to govern.

So he simply didn't kill the chicken, but directly caught a monkey and killed it in front of the chicken.

Shut down for three months, severely punished, and ordered to make serious rectifications...

One thing after another is being dealt with, leaving no room for any easing.

After weighing the pros and cons, Wang Yan felt that "Bo Ji" had become a negative asset for Sina. There was no need to invest more resources to save it, and there was no room for rescue.

After a long talk with Cao Guowei, he officially decided to abandon the "Bo Ji" platform and look for a suitable product that is more in line with the Internet trend.

Cao Guowei's face was gloomy. He never expected that he had been ambitiously preparing to compete with Qin Shaoyan, the rising star, but ended up being defeated in just half a year.

The defeat was so quick and so sudden.

In this battle, Qin Shaoyan did not perform any strange operations. The problem was entirely on Sina's side.

The person in charge had the wrong strategic direction, the product manager was too bold, and Wang Wei made one stupid move after another.

The board of directors was short-sighted and kept dragging its feet, forcing the "Bo Ji" project to focus entirely on traffic and data, and to resort to unorthodox practices amid the fierce competition.

The failure of "Bo Ji" was not caused by its opponents, it was entirely its own fault!
There are bad guys inside the company!

When Cao Guowei was reflecting, there was a noise outside the office door and the door was suddenly pushed open.

He looked up and saw Wang Wei and his assistant rushing in.

"Mr. Cao, Manager Wang insisted on breaking in..." the assistant said with some panic.

At this time, Wang Wei's face was haggard, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked quite decadent.

Cao Guowei waved his hand and said to his assistant, "You go out first."

After the assistant left, Cao Guowei did not stand up, but pointed to the i and said, "Sit down."

Wang Wei did not sit down, but walked quickly to Cao Guowei and said excitedly: "Mr. Cao, Bo Ji can't just give up like this!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Cao Guowei shouted angrily, "You have ruined the reputation of Boji. If you don't give up, are you going to keep it?"

"Mr. Cao, I admit that I had a gambling mentality, but you can't put all the blame on me for the failure." Wang Wei said angrily, "I just want to make Sina better. What have I done wrong?"

"If the board of directors hadn't given us blind orders and forced us with KPIs, the project team wouldn't have formulated such an aggressive traffic plan."

"There are also those foreign internet celebrities who keep posting borderline pictures. I have warned them before, but they don't listen at all and ignore us. They are just trying to make money and are getting more and more excessive."

"I raised this issue at the meeting, but some directors were against us taking restrictive and blocking measures against foreign influencers..."

"It's okay to have some illegal pictures. Every website has its own problems. The reason why the blog has become like this is all because of that woman Belinda!"

"Alright, alright!" Cao Guowei knocked on the table impatiently. "If you want to talk, just talk about your own problems. Don't bring up other people's issues."

"Boss Cao!" Wang Wei cried, "I'm not trying to shirk my responsibility or to defend myself. I do have problems, but Belinda's are bigger!"

"She talks a lot of nonsense, but in fact she says one thing and does another. Her real purpose is to mess up our project!"

"She is an undercover sent by Qin Shaoyan! A business spy!"

Cao Guowei laughed angrily and slammed the table. "What nonsense are you talking about?! What undercover spy? I think you are really out of your mind!"

"I'm not talking nonsense! Mr. Cao, I have evidence!" Wang Wei said quickly, "After Belinda came, she replaced all the project team members with her trusted friends, classmates, and friends."

"She was doing soft-text marketing. She hired reporters to write articles for people she knew. She spent a lot of marketing money and got a lot of kickbacks!"

Cao Guowei had a blank expression on his face and listened to Wang Wei's revelations in silence.

What he said were all minor issues that didn't matter. Of course he knew that Belinda would have problems, but who is clean?

Hasn’t Wang Wei ever done something like this before?

"Belinda's female power campaign sounds good on the surface, supporting female bloggers, but it's all a cover-up!" Wang Wei said indignantly, "In fact, those female blogger accounts are all fake. Belinda registered several cultural media companies outside, created a group of female-oriented accounts, and then signed contracts with blogging platforms."

"Belinda took advantage of her position to set the subsidy level of these accounts to the highest level. A large amount of subsidies flowed into the cultural media companies behind these accounts through these accounts, and actually went into her own pocket!"

Hearing this, Cao Guowei sat up and said sternly, "Is this just your own groundless speculation? Or do you have any evidence?"

"I have evidence!" Wang Wei immediately took out a stack of documents from his briefcase. "These are the evidence I collected, enough to prove that these companies are related to Belinda."

Cao Guowei grabbed the information and glanced at it. His face became darker and darker. Then he threw the information aside, closed his eyes and said, "Control the person first!"

Wang Wei became excited and asked, "Should we call the police?"

"Let's get things straight first!" Cao Guowei paused, "We need to find out the reason why Bo Ji was shut down!"

Wang Wei understood immediately. "Bo Ji" was a key project that Sina had high hopes for. President Cao had poured so much effort into it and the company had spent so much money, but now it had failed.

The board of directors will definitely hold someone accountable. Wang Wei doesn't want to take the blame, and Mr. Cao doesn't want to take the blame either. So who can take the blame?

After looking around, Belinda is the most suitable outsider.

When Wang Wei and his men broke into Belinda's office, Belinda was packing her things. She became a little panicked when she saw Wang Wei coming in with several burly security guards.

"Boss Wang, what are you going to do?"

"Director Bei, what are you doing?" Wang Wei sneered, then gestured, "Gather all the items in Director Bei's office."

Several security guards stepped forward and immediately seized Belinda's office computer, filing cabinet, and official seal in the drawer. "What are you doing? Stop!" Belinda screamed and immediately rushed forward to snatch the official seal from the security guard's hand.

The security guard was not willing to let go. Wang Wei had already given instructions before coming and reminded them in advance of the things that needed to be taken, especially the official seal, which had to be obtained.

Belinda used all her strength to grab it, and shouted: "Help!"

There was a commotion in the office, which soon attracted a crowd of onlookers. Some of them had already taken out their cell phones to take photos and videos.

It took a lot of effort to finally control Belinda, take away her computer and official seal, and take away all the documents in the office.

"I'm calling the police! You're a bunch of bandits! You're kidnapping! You're illegally controlling my personal freedom!" Belinda complained angrily.

"You can call the police!" Wang Wei sneered, "We should call the police too, Director Bei."

"When the police come, tell them what you did."

"Commercial bribery and occupational embezzlement, depending on the amount, you will be in prison for at least four or five years, and it is not impossible for a lawyer to spend ten years."

Belinda was stunned for a moment, then flatly denied it, "You are slandering me! You are framing me!"

"Don't quibble. We already have evidence." Wang Wei sneered, "You think that no one will know about your covert actions? Do you think that a cultural media company registered under someone else's name can't be traced back to you? If we didn't have evidence, we wouldn't come looking for you today."

Belinda was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze.

"All you can do now is to cooperate and confess honestly, and we may consider giving you a lighter sentence." Wang Wei said in a gentler tone.

Belinda looked up and smiled bitterly: "What do you want me to say?"

"Tell me, are you an undercover sent by Qin Shaoyan?" Wang Wei asked, "Did you follow his instructions and deliberately cause trouble for us?"

"Ah?" Belinda was confused. She had not expected this turn of events.

……

"From what Mr. Cao said, that person was an undercover agent sent by me on purpose?"

Qin Shaoyan didn't expect that things would develop like this.

Cao Guowei's questioning made him laugh. "Boss Cao, if you tell this to the board of directors, unless they are idiots, they won't believe it, right?"

"Boss Qin, we have solid evidence, and Belinda herself has admitted it." Cao Guowei said calmly, "We have both witnesses and evidence, so you can't help but believe it."

Qin Shaoyan sighed, "It's easy to find excuses to accuse someone of a crime!"

"You can't be so shameless as to be like this, can you? You poached my secretary, stole my business plan, and poached foreign influencers, and now you're turning the tables on me."

"I have never seen such a shameless person!"

"Mr. Qin, you are slandering me!" Cao Guowei denied it very calmly.

"I have evidence." Qin Shaoyan sneered, "You don't think I don't know what you did? The foreign Internet celebrity company has sold you out."

"Also, I have video footage of you bribing my secretary to steal my plan."

"What video?" Cao Guowei was stunned.

"Your blogger director named Wang Wei has all the audio and video recordings of the transaction with my secretary." Qin Shaoyan took out an MP3 and shook it. "Would you like to listen to it? The content is very exciting."

Cao Guowei's face immediately changed, "Where did you get it from?"

"You just don't understand the basic principles of recording." Qin Shaoyan mocked, "Next time, don't make such a big fuss, for fear that others will not know. My secretary is timid and was afraid that I would hold her accountable, so she kept the evidence for self-protection."

"At the time, I thought we were all friendly competitors and there was no need to tear each other apart, so I just suppressed the matter. I didn't expect that Sina would go even further."

"Then there are some things that have to be investigated seriously."

Cao Guowei fell silent. He had never expected that Qin Shaoyan had this trick.

Some things are not as heavy as 1000 kilograms, and they cannot be stopped even if they are weighed at 1,000 kilograms.

"Boss Qin, it's not good for everyone if we quarrel, so why bother?" Cao Guowei smiled bitterly, "Actually, I'm not here today to decide who is right and who is wrong."

"Boss Cao, what you said is not right." Qin Shaoyan retorted bluntly, "It's obviously your fault, but you make it seem like it's my fault."

"Okay, okay, it's my fault." Cao Guowei sighed, "Boss Qin, please be magnanimous. Let's just let this go, okay?"

"Then what good will it do me?" Qin Shaoyan asked back, "Besides, it was obviously you who started this matter. You've already lost, and now you come to talk to me about peace?"

"Mr. Qin, we promise to give up blogging. Is that sincere enough?" Cao Guowei said directly.

Give up blogging?

Qin Shaoyan was a little surprised. Sina had invested a lot of resources in Blogging, and now Cao Guowei actually gave up so bluntly, which was a little beyond his expectation.

But I think it makes sense. The reputation of "Bo Ji" has been ruined and the label has been attached. It is almost impossible to make a comeback.

If it continues to operate, it will probably never get rid of the impression of being a porn platform, just like Tumblr. Once it embarks on this path, it will be extremely difficult to clean itself up and get out of this mess.

"Bo Ji" is now a negative asset, and Sina must quickly get rid of this hot potato, so giving up "Bo Ji" is the best option.

However, everyone understands this principle, but it is indeed extremely difficult to make a decision.

First of all, the sunk costs make it difficult for Sina to give up, and giving up "Bo Ji" will inevitably mean taking on huge responsibilities. Making this decision will definitely attract a lot of criticism.

Now Cao Guowei's decision to make a decisive move did surprise Qin Shaoyan.

"What does your giving up Bo Ji have to do with me?" Qin Shaoyan sneered, "Bo Ji's failure is only a matter of time. We have all the advantages on Weibo. Even if you don't give up Bo Ji, it will be useless."

Cao Guowei smiled and said, "What if we are willing to help Weibo?"

Qin Shaoyan was startled and frowned, "What do you mean?"

"How about we shut down the BoJi platform and give all the users to Weibo?" Cao Guowei asked, "Is this sincerity enough?"

Qin Shaoyan hesitated for two seconds, "What do you want?"

Cao Guowei said seriously: "We would like to ask Mr. Qin to help us design a product for Sina."

(End of this chapter)