Why would the creator of Silk Road 2.0 sabotage his business like that by stealing all the money from the marketplace? Wouldn't he have made more money from the business long term instead of just taking the money and running, if he even took it in the first place?
Because he can just make another site after this. His identity is unknown who said he got any "reputation"
Seriously, this site has been around for all of a few months. In my time here, I've seen plenty of people with that short of a reputation run away with a profitable business for much less.
I imagine that he got scared that he would be caught by the feds, so instead of taking the profit over time and risking his ass, he decided that he was much safer just stealing the funds all at once.