Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.

“I’ve been covering tech for a long, long time. And the thing I’ve always tried to do is cover the people of the tech culture, not the tech itself. … I've always been interested in the good and bad side of technology. A lot of times the problem in Silicon Valley is that people come up with a good idea that’s supposed to do a good thing—you know, to change the world and make it a better place. And it ends up inevitably having a recourse that they don’t imagine.”

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Bilton on Longform

[00:00] Ponzi Supernova

[01:15] American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Portfolio • 2017)

[01:45] Bilton’s New York Times archive

[01:45] Bilton’s Vanity Fair archive

[01:45] Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal (Portfolio • 2014)

[07:30] "The Underground Website Where You Can Buy Any Drug Imaginable" (Adrian Chen • Gawker • Jun 2011)

[07:30] Adrian Chen’s first appearance on the Longform Podcast

[07:30] Adrian Chen’s second appearance on the Longform Podcast

[09:15] NYC Resistor

[11:45] "Uber’s C.E.O. Plays With Fire" (Mike Isaac • New York Times • Apr 2017)

[16:00] Fan Club

[21:30] Bits, New York Times technology blog

[21:45] Gizmodo

[23:00] Bill Keller’s New York Times archive

[23:00] John Markoff’s New York Times archive

[25:45] "The iEconomy" series

[27:30] "How the Kindle Moved From BlackBerry to iPad" (New York Times • Sep 2011)

[29:45] "Disruptions: Fliers Must Turn Off Devices, but It’s Not Clear Why" (New York Times • Nov 2011)

[50:45] "Meet the Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road" (Andy Greenberg • Forbes • Sep 2013)

[50:45] "Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison" (Andy Greenberg • Wired • May 2015)

[50:45] "The Rise & Fall of Silk Road Part I" (Joshuah Bearman • Wired • Apr 2015)

[50:45] "The Rise & Fall of Silk Road Part II" (Joshuah Bearman • Wired • May 2015)

[51:00] "Exclusive: How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down" (Vanity Fair • Oct 2016)

[52:00] "‘It’s An Honor’" (Jimmy Breslin • New York Herald Tribune • Nov 1963)

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