What's is rather shocking is the kinds of mistakes he made.
Not some subtle but plain simple. Like using personal email to register on forums and promote SR and recruit people.
Using stackoverflow with personal email, again... Yes they are not some solid evidences, but made the FBIs life, to get the guy, much easier. You might say that it's easy for me to point out those mistakes but they are so basic and it's not that he was running some Nigerian type of scam, he must have been way more careful.
Or keep messages about the 'murder-for-hire'. Yeah it's rather obvious that no one got hired but good luck explaining this negotiation tactics to the judge. Plus he mentions $80k for other 'murder-for-hire'. I'm really curious how the thing with this 'murder' will end up. I mean he could have just simply deleted them just in case. It's not FB that it would stay forever...
Ross was a San Fran "startup" guy. Hey created an MVP product with the usual "fake it till you make it" attitude that is part of this culture. PG himself will happily tell you not to worry about lawyers and other distractions until your MVP is out the door.
This may work for a typical startup, but Ross was foolish enough to apply this advice to a criminal enterprise.
Amusing anecdote: I was at a pg talk last week, and afterwards someone in the audience came up and asked if SR being gone meant there was a market niche for a new startup.
pg's answer was that it was in no way worth the risk, there are lots of other things you can try without the large risk of ending up in jail.
Not some subtle but plain simple. Like using personal email to register on forums and promote SR and recruit people.
Using stackoverflow with personal email, again... Yes they are not some solid evidences, but made the FBIs life, to get the guy, much easier. You might say that it's easy for me to point out those mistakes but they are so basic and it's not that he was running some Nigerian type of scam, he must have been way more careful.
Or keep messages about the 'murder-for-hire'. Yeah it's rather obvious that no one got hired but good luck explaining this negotiation tactics to the judge. Plus he mentions $80k for other 'murder-for-hire'. I'm really curious how the thing with this 'murder' will end up. I mean he could have just simply deleted them just in case. It's not FB that it would stay forever...