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 V.P. of product at Snap and co-founder of Pandora, to discuss Bilton’s book American Kingpin; if Silicon Valley C.E.O.s are moral at heart or more concerned with their profits and their legacy; and if Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road Web site, is any different from other C.E.O.s in tech.

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