HUNCHED over a laptop, fluffy brown-haired student Ross Ulbricht could easily have become the next Mark Zuckerberg - but instead he was transforming into an underground drug lord kingpin.
“All these new innovations became the perfect storm for him and made it hard for the FBI to crack down on who it was.”The website put things into categories to make it easy to navigate His work was described in court as “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today.”
For David, Ross reminded him acutely of the high profile millionaires he had profiled, but with one key difference - he had created something illegal.David says Ross reminded him of Facebook founder Mark ZuckerbergDavid said: “I’ve found over the years there are certain commonalities in tech giants. I think it starts with a personal need to fulfil something.