On August 16, a number of Chinese investors mourned: Sara Wei Meng, managing director of DCM, passed away at the age of 32. A number of media later confirmed the news.
Some investors revealed that Sara Wei Meng had a sudden situation during the mileage class. She was in an interactive session of “four people insulting one person” because of emotions that led to the unfortunate death.
An official account named LEGACY Chengquan Beijing (company full name: Beijing Chengquan Cultural Development Co., Ltd.) issued a statement saying that on the evening of August 14, an outstanding professional woman and a mother of two children were in the Feiyueli workshop. She fainted unexpectedly, and an emergency call was made at the scene of 120, and was sent to Chaoyang Hospital for treatment.
In the announcement, LEGACY seeks to recruit experts in brain and cardiovascular aspects for consultation. “Feiyueli workshop participants, all team leaders and tutors have been working with each other and their families, and looking for more medical resources.”
The above-mentioned investors confirmed that the course that Wei Meng fainted was this LEGACY mileage course.
Wei Meng’s social account authentication information shows: DCM Managing Director. Joined DCM in July 2014, mainly covering early and mid-term investments in community social networking, online products, consumer Internet and enterprise service SaaS, and led investment in projects such as Tantan (acquired by Momo), Maimai, Panda Star Kitchen, Blued, etc. Responsible for the post-investment management of enterprises such as Kuaishou and 51Talk. On October 17, 2019, Wei Meng was selected into the 2019 Forbes China Under 30 Elite List.
According to data, DCM was established in 1996 and is a venture capital company that manages more than US$4 billion in funds.
What shocked many investors is that the mileage class that Wei Meng attended may be suspected of mind control and brainwashing.
Some investors say that the model of mileage lessons is to insult you, destroy you, and save you. This kind of course is the enchantment activity of the soul, which uses psychological experience and geographical advantages to attack the students, which is very immoral.
The above-mentioned investment also stated that many of the investors have been developed into this I am afraid course, and some investors around who have taken the course are still developing and offline.
Who is Mileage LEGACY?
According to the introduction of mileage LEGACY on the official website, LEGACY is a consulting company dedicated to improving personal growth and corporate sustainability. It began serving the Chinese community in Hong Kong in 2000. Its workshops were organized by a group of people with ideals and visions and rich experience. Hosted by professionals, most of the participants are the most accomplished and outstanding people in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shenzhen and other parts of China.
“If you are looking for more efficient development or experience for career, family, health, finance, interpersonal relationship, life goals and other fields, and create a richer life, LEGACY will support you to realize your dreams and reach the peak of life and career.”
According to Tianyancha, the legal representative of Beijing Chengquan Cultural Development Co., Ltd. is Meng Huan, which is 100% holding and belongs to a sole proprietorship of natural persons.
In LEGACY’s push articles, “mileage” is an extraordinary journey that breaks the obsessive repetition, allows you to change your underlying model completely, from the inside to the outside, and truly make you achieve success in your life.
Some investors say that LEGACY’s courses are very close to mind control, and many Chinese investors in the Beijing VC circle have been poisoned. “The essence of the course is to use Kant’s words, that is, people who have mastered a certain kind of wisdom but have no virtue.”
Previously, media reported that in the Beijing Chengquan Cultural Workshop, the course was divided into four sessions. If the four courses named “Exploration”, “Transformation”, “Miles” and “Wisdom Spring” are completed, the cost of a student will exceed RMB 20,000. The first phase of the “exploration” course has the largest number of people. The price of the five-and-a-half-day course is 4,400 yuan. When the number of people is large, there are more than 100 students in the first phase.
An investor who had participated in a similar “spiritual course” in Shenzhen told the reporter that similar to the situation mentioned in the screenshot above, this type of course will insult the students and seriously suppress their self-esteem in more extreme cases. To proceed, the idea is “to be completely destroyed to rebuild.” But not everyone can accept and bear this way, so some people have called this kind of course “mental control” before.
On Zhihu, someone pointed out that the course of mileage feels like MLM.
According to a report by Tencent News “Yi Xian”, a friend of Wei Meng described in Moments: Under the banner of “You are going to save your friends and lovers”, the LEGACY course once asked Wei Meng and other students to reflect on “who you are sorry to,” Why is she so busy at work and doesn’t take good care of her children, she is a rotten person”, Wei Meng was emotionally broken.
Currently, Beijing Chengquan Cultural Development Co., Ltd. has not yet responded to this except for the above announcement. Source