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- ▶ 24:54 Shaan Puri The problem was, I stumbled headfirst into the, into the dark web, uh, where Silk Road, you know, pre-Silk Road of internet wholesale drugs, and he's like, uh, there was a place where you could buy chemicals from,
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- ▶ 0:22 Shaan Puri It's a story of the Silk Road, of Ross Ulbricht, who created it, grew it to great, you know, prominence, ended up going to jail, what we thought was for life, and then he just got pardoned by Trump.
- ▶ 2:07 Sam Parr The best story of all time with the Silk Road. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:40 Shaan Puri Crazy where I think, I don't know if at its peak, but I think Silk Road was doing like, you know, over a billion dollars, like GMV through the, the marketplace.
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- ▶ 57:06 Shaan Puri And then somebody goes, well, the government did do him a favor because he was basically forced to not sell his Bitcoin from 20 11 or whatever, when he was running, uh, you know, Silk Road and Bitcoin was like, you know, in the dollar… 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 8:56 Shaan Puri I thought criminal billionaire, like Silk Road type shit was.
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- ▶ 29:42 Shaan Puri The US has it because they seized the Silk Road, right?
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- ▶ 24:33 Shaan Puri And so, you know, that's how they caught the, you know, the Silk Road, for example.
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- ▶ 11:44 Shaan Puri That like intertwines with the Silk Road and other things.
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- ▶ 8:16 Sam Parr So I was going to bring this up, but we talked about Ross O'Bright and he said, I want to, I want someone to bring up Silk Road to me and I want them to not know that it was me.
- ▶ 14:59 Sam Parr There's a lot of alleged going on here, but this is the fact that I'm gonna say he started this thing called Silk Road. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:48 Ben Wilson Uh, I read like a thing from his girlfriend at the time that said he became increasingly withdrawn and was just like in his room, 24, seven programming, coming up with the business model, coming up with this whole thing for what would… 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:20 Sam Parr We'll wrap up with what Silk Road was and like Ross's background. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:44 Sam Parr Um, she goes, we need to put an example to anyone who creates the Silk Road too.
- ▶ 38:09 Sam Parr and it's this guy I knew, Ross, had been arrested and it was for starting Silk Road. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:29 Sam Parr So he had this friend named Richard, Richard Bates and Richard, he tried to recruit Richard to come work at the Silk Road when he first started it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:23 Sam Parr So, uh, the Silk Road, even though it had a massive impact on Bitcoin and society and things like that, it was only around, I think, for two years. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:04 Sam Parr 10 to 20 years just for the drug charges and for creating Silk Road. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 27:07 Shaan Puri Like, kind of, like, for the Silk Road, and like, isn't that, like, kind of scammy?
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- ▶ 5:15 Shaan Puri Like there's, there's like way, you know, like the way they caught the silk road guy was like his, the way he was typing or whatever matched some review he left on a movie message board or so, you know, there's always something like that.
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- ▶ 33:11 Shaan Puri So I like, you know, just like I love the Silk Road, but I would never go on the Silk Road and buy drugs, but I like to learn about it and see how it worked and how big it was.
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- ▶ 2:11 Shaan Puri Bumping into the Silk Road founder at a party and he like stole your girl or whatever.