Freelance reporter and audio producer Chris Harland-Dunaway speaks about his long investigative story on Tron founder Justin Sun after his acquisition of BitTorrent. In this episode, Harland-Dunaway describes: <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how after his acquisition of peer-to-peer file sharing protocol BitTorrent Justin Sun straddled the China-West divide </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Sun's background, his early success and how he got into cryptocurrency</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how he treated the US-based employees differently from those based in China</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how Sun made a threat to kill an employee's family over an anonymous employee question about what would happen is TRX went to $0</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">an incident in which Sun hit an employee</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">how Sun handled ethical issues that cropped up around scammers on the app store on Tron, with piracy on BitTorrent product BT Movie and with dark web-style content on BT Live</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">why he believes Sun's biggest liability is his lack of empathy as both a manager and entrepreneur</li> </ul>   Thank you to our sponsor!  <a href="http://crypto.com/">Crypto.com</a>: <a href= "http://crypto.com/">http://crypto.com</a>   Episode links:  Christopher Harland-Dunaway: <a href= "https://twitter.com/ChrisHDeee">https://twitter.com/ChrisHDeee</a> Justin Sun: <a href= "https://twitter.com/justinsuntron">https://twitter.com/justinsuntron</a> Tron Foundation: <a href= "https://twitter.com/Tronfoundation">https://twitter.com/Tronfoundation</a>   Chris's article on Justin in The Verge: <a href= "https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china"> https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/21459906/bittorrent-tron-acquisition-justin-sun-us-china</a>   Links from news recap: <a href= "https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-has-never-been-healthier"> https://unchainedpodcast.com/why-bitcoin-has-never-been-healthier</a>

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