The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Christo Grozev is The Disruptor in its purest structural form. From Bellingcat he proved that a civilian armed with databases and methodical thinking could outperform state intelligence agencies, then used that proof to force cold cases reopened and murderers jailed.
“Once you know you can do that, it's very hard to not do it because there's a kind of a moral responsibility, a moral imperative for you to continue doing that. And there's a bit of an adrenaline rush when the big guys get worried about your work.”
“I derived enormous happiness from being better than governments. The government says they can't do something — I discarded everything else I was doing for two months until I found who they were.”
“We literally guilt them into reopening the cases. Many law enforcement agencies had stopped investigating, and two or three years later, we find the evidence in leaked databases.”
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy: “Christo Grozev: the Russian spy catcher Putin wants dead”
LISTEN AT THE SOURCE ↗THE RECORD IS CHECKABLE