Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 619: Shameless

"Boss," Jiang Ming said, "According to the information we've gathered, recently, the membership numbers of major video platforms have been declining.

Since member revenue can't continue to grow, these video platforms probably thought of using sneaky ad time to increase platform income.

"Does this kind of behavior violate advertising laws?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"For now, there's no corresponding advertising law to handle this. Besides, even if there were, platforms could make excuses, saying they cut a few more seconds due to system errors, not intentional human error."

"Since we can't tackle it legally, let's use public opinion instead," Chen Yiyang instructed Jiang Ming, "You and the team come up with a strategy to expose this issue and ignite public debate."

"Should we take this opportunity to promote our own Bilibili platform?" Jiang Ming asked.

"No need," Chen Yiyang said, "This time, we're just aiming to strike at these platforms with excessive ads.

If these platforms don't change in the future, we'll surpass them sooner or later."

"Understood," Jiang Ming nodded in agreement.

Chen Yiyang didn't feel the need to take this opportunity to promote his own platform.

Because he felt that if these domestic peers continue like this, they'll collectively go under sooner or later.

At that time, the one with fewer mistakes will emerge victorious from this competition.

The world is like a comparison of who is less bad.

After finishing the call with Jiang Ming, Chen Yiyang continued to push forward investment matters in Rabat.

But a few days later, Chen Yiyang received a call from China saying that the boss of 369 Company, Zhou Hongyi, wanted to chat with him.

What does Zhou Hongyi want with me?

Someone involved in antivirus software and search engines has nothing to do with my current business.

However, since Chen Yiyang was staying in Morocco anyway, he agreed to have a transcontinental phone chat with Zhou Hongyi.

"Mr. Chen, I've long admired your name, and today I finally get to speak with you. It's an honor."

On the phone, Zhou Hongyi adopted a very humble posture, not at all like a senior figure.

"There's no need to say that," Chen Yiyang quickly suggested that Zhou Hongyi's attitude was a bit overboard.

Such a humble posture meant the other party definitely needed something from him.

"It's like this," Zhou Hongyi, seeing that Chen Yiyang was not swayed by this, simply explained his intention directly.

"After DeepSeek became popular, my 369 Company also developed a 369AI. I originally intended to develop in the AI field as well.

But after entering, I found that the AI field was too difficult. Without professional insight and an impressive technical team, nothing can be achieved."

"So what are you suggesting?" Chen Yiyang was a bit puzzled by Zhou Hongyi's words.

"It's like this, Mr. Chen. Although my 369AI may be a bit weaker, we've developed quite a few technical achievements.

Instead of letting these achievements waste here, I thought I might as well give them to Mr. Chen to help in DeepSeek's research."

"Are you saying you want to give them away for free?" Chen Yiyang interrupted Zhou Hongyi's speech.

"Yes," Zhou Hongyi straightforwardly replied.

"Goodbye then," Chen Yiyang decisively hung up the phone.

What do you take me for, an idiot?

Although Chen Yiyang didn't understand why Zhou Hongyi said what he did,

behind it, there was definitely no good intention.

To be honest, although he had heard Zhou Hongyi's name long ago, this was his first interaction with him.

So Chen Yiyang thought for a moment, then called some friends in the business world to ask what Zhou Hongyi was up to.

"Mr. Chen," an experienced business veteran in his forties or fifties said to Chen Yiyang, "It's clear Zhou Hongyi wants to make money again, preparing to use you as a means of stirring up business to earn some cash."

"How so?" Chen Yiyang inquired.

"That 369AI he developed back then was just to ride on DeepSeek's hype.

After he launched 369AI, the stock price of 369 Company surged in a short period.

As a result, he quickly divorced and sold high shares, making a handsome profit.

Later, he announced that a software company under his name would offer massive dividends, and the company's stock price surged by fifty percent in no time.

But then he promptly announced the cancellation of dividends and reduced shares aggressively during that period."

"Does he have any shame?" Chen Yiyang was surprised to learn that someone who was once a pioneer in the tech industry had turned out like this.

"Those are actually the more decent things Zhou Hongyi has done," the person continued,

"Zhou Hongyi once started a 369 IOU, which in terms of equity had no relation to the 369 Group and was merely a personal company.

But later, the 369 IOU became infamous, causing the investors of 369 to curse it for many years before 369 Group severed ties and it was renamed.

Even after renaming, the new name had to carry a parenthesis, saying it was the original 369 IOU.

A well-known listed company bore the brunt for a financial company without any equity relationship for many years. Can you guess whose company it actually was?"

There was no need to guess this one, was there?

With just a little thought, Chen Yiyang could figure out who was really profiting from this IOU company.

"But I heard he contributed a lot to national cyber security?"

"Bullshit," the other side cursed directly, "The network security company procured by the authorities is another company, having little to do with 369. It was his former partner who couldn't stand him and started a company for it.

Zhou Hongyi thinks investing in cyber security costs too much and earns too slowly, so the one doing cyber security isn't him. He just builds a persona to gain credit for boosting stock prices."

Now Chen Yiyang understood why, at the last gathering of big shots, the little horse from Tengxu had no regard for Zhou Hongyi.

The look in his eyes was naked contempt.

Originally, Chen Yiyang thought the little horse felt Zhou Hongyi fell too low to be worthy as a rival anymore.

It turns out Zhou Hongyi had completely thrown ethics away.

What a mess.

Chen Yiyang wondered if Zhou Hongyi might make a fuss about that phone call.

Chen Yiyang asked his assistant to check all of Zhou Hongyi's accounts.

Sure enough, the assistant quickly replied that Zhou Hongyi had indeed released a new video.

The video was short and just mentioned he recently had a phone call with the newly rising business genius Chen Yiyang, where they talked about AI development.

Chen Yiyang even thought his 369AI had great potential.

To be honest, if you really scrutinize what Zhou Hongyi posted, you can't exactly say he lied.

Of course, there wasn't any truth in it either.

But if domestic investors believed this and drove up the stock, Zhou Hongyi would make a killing for free.

"I'll release a clarification video right away," Chen Yiyang said, "You guys have DeepSeek's official account release one too."

"No problem, boss," the assistant immediately responded.

Looks like I can't randomly take calls from others in the future.

Chen Yiyang hadn't expected that casually answering a call would stir up such trouble.

Of course, it mainly had to do with Mr. Zhou, this senior figure in the tech entrepreneurship world, having become quite shameless.