Selling Guns, Drugs, and Murder on the Dark Web

Inside the Hive

Vanity Fair

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Should it be legal to sell mild drugs, like weed and magic mushrooms, on the Internet? What about heroin? Handguns? AR-15s? Even murder-for-hire? Nick Bilton sits down with Tom Conrad, former product director of Snap and co-founder of Pandora, to discuss Nick's book, “American Kingpin;” if Silicon Valley CEOs are moral at heart, or more concerned with their profits and their legacy; and if Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road website, is any different from other CEOs in tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're up.
0:02.0	What do you say?
0:05.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive.
0:09.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive with Tom Conrad.
0:12.8	No, you're supposed to say, I am your host.
0:14.3	Fuck me dead.
0:14.7	We're just keep, we're not stopping.
0:18.3	I know, clearly.
0:19.2	So let's explain what's going on here this week.
0:21.8	So, Tom Conrad, that's you, that's me, is
0:26.4	hosting the show, your host, and I am gonna be the guest and what are we talking
0:30.0	about? Who are you? I'm Nick Bilton. You're Nick Bilton. And we are talking about your book,
0:35.0	book, American King Pen.
0:36.6	Yeah, that's, you got the title, right?
0:38.0	Which is good.
0:39.0	It is one of the few books I've read in the last couple of years, it was you know that was helpful when you asked if I would be willing to do this
0:45.0	Which is out in paperback it is out in paperback this week and
0:51.0	We're just gonna talk about that and technology and its role in society and so I'm going to give you a I'm going to give everyone a little primer on you Tom Conrad so Tom started his career at did you start at pet's dot com?
1:05.0	No Apple.
1:06.6	Apple okay
1:07.7	same thing
1:08.7	considerably better
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