He is also considering launching a dating app for lesbians. Ma hopes to use the money to expand abroad and possibly prepare for an IPO. His has spawned a Chinese-language dating app for men called Blued that has garnered 15 million users, 3 million of them outside China, over two years.Īnd last month, his company, Blue City, received $30 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture capital company DCM Ventures. Ma chose his website, a move that later proved fruitful. By night, he ran a website for gay people to share experiences and on which he spoke under a pseudonym about the pressure he faced as a homosexual.Īfter several years, the police force found out and told him he could not run a private website that was earning money from advertisements while serving as a police officer. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.īEIJING (AP) - By day, Ma Baoli was a high-ranking officer in a seaside city police force. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use.
