Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose (techcrunch.com) 98
TechCrunch has confirmed with TMZ that Colin Kroll, the 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of the HQ Trivia app and co-founder of Vine, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his apartment. TMZ cites a police source saying cocaine and heroin were believed to be involved. From the report: Kroll was only named CEO of the HQ Trivia mobile game show app three months ago, replacing fellow co-founder Rus Yusupov who moved over to serve as chief creative officer. Prior to taking the CEO role Kroll served as HQ's CTO. He co-founded the startup in 2015, a few months after moving on from Vine -- the Twitter-owned short video format startup which got closed down in 2017. It's not clear who will take over the CEO role for HQ Trivia at this stage but Yusupov looks a likely candidate, at least in the interim.
Kroll started his career as a software engineer at Right Media, which went on to be acquired by Yahoo in 2006. From then until 2011, he led the engineering team in Yahoo's search and advertising tech group before joining luxury travel site Jetsetter as VP of Product -- where he went on to be promoted to CTO. In 2012 he left to start Vine with co-founders Dominik Hofmann and Yusopov.
Kroll started his career as a software engineer at Right Media, which went on to be acquired by Yahoo in 2006. From then until 2011, he led the engineering team in Yahoo's search and advertising tech group before joining luxury travel site Jetsetter as VP of Product -- where he went on to be promoted to CTO. In 2012 he left to start Vine with co-founders Dominik Hofmann and Yusopov.
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This is a pathetic attempt at trolling right there. How many incels do you think have GFs?
Re: Dead INCEL asshole (Score:1)
Elliot Rodger had a couple. None of them would put out for him, of course, but the fact remains that he had them.
Re: Dead INCEL asshole (Score:1)
No, he doesn't need a GF. His whole problem is that he thinks he "needs" a GF to "fix" him, rather than just doing the work of growing the fuck up for himself.
Re: Dead INCEL asshole (Score:2)
Awkward grammatical construction, I'm afraid. I was going for "doing the work for oneself", not "growing up for oneself", Sorry about that.
But what's the point of doing the work for oneself? That's easy: nothing else gets the job done. Growing up is a thought-based process, and no one can think for you. If you want to grow up, you have to grow up; no amount of girlfriends or mothers or anyone else can grow you up.
This is not a pleasant or quick process. I understand that only too well. Growing up isn't easy
Re: Dead INCEL asshole (Score:1)
I mean, that's basically it. The only catch is that it only works after you've actually built a self for yourself. Getting by on the same id-driven half-psyche you had as a toddler is only going to get you called out as a creeper.
Dead ex-INCEL asshole (Score:3, Insightful)
According to TMZ, it was his girlfriend who called in the wellness check.
That said, the incel community tends to have a bit of a crab bucket mentality--wait, no, that's insulting to crabs. It's not a Good Idea to let them know you're leaving because you realized growing the fuck up (or even just basic self-care) was a good idea and hey, awesome, you're able to get a girlfriend! While it is going to be less entertaining to us incel watchers, going ghost for your exit's probably safest.
Though ODing fatally
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Frankly I find it odd the girlfriend would do this: you know your boyfriend shoots up drugs and you send the police around to check on him?
I would have expected she would either go herself or contact a mutual friend to check.
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I'm With Her shit around
Gross!
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Once they start ingesting the zombie sauce, growing up won't work anymore. They grow up into zombies, wandering the streets breaking into cars for the console change.
At the moment in time where they made that choice, that's was their last chance to grow up into a human, and they failed the test.
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Only if he was celebit 8 times in a row.
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Were the CEOs of the 18th and 19th centuries as careless with their coke and opium as they are today? Or... was it murder?? What did he know? And when did he know it? Where were YOU last night?
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Before it was illegal, you could rely on known good sources of coke and opium. That way you could reliably control dosage and time of intake. Not being a criminal also meant you could go ahead with the rest of your life -- like being a CEO.
Today, you never know what the hell is in the stuff you get. Any heroin should be assumed to have fentanyl in it, and that stuff will almost always kill you.
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Speedballing.
Heroin brings you down, coke brings you up, wanna go back down again shoot some H. Too low, smoke some crack or freebase some coke.
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Yeah, I think those people are weird. I'm scared to even mix beer and chocolate.
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Re:Slow news day? (Score:5, Insightful)
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So you are a psychopath with no real feelings. The majority of humans aren't and (as a social animal) need other humans. Pretty simple but you wouldn't understand that being a strong, independent individual and all.
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Blue. No yel-- Auuuuuuuugh! [youtube.com]
Re:Good. (Score:5, Insightful)
Lack of empathy is a lack of humanity.
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Honestly, I agree with you as long as we're not talking 'predictive punishment' or simply punitive 'you're rich, I'm not' revanchism.
But yes, absolutely I think that $1 million is a pretty decent number to say that is a death-penalty offense: theft of that or greater (by any means - robbing a car, or selling overrated derivatives*) should be up for a death result.
*this would include anyone paid over $1 million in pay, bonus, options, or other compensation whose acts are knowingly illegal.
I'm wondering how w
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That is simply not true.
I have a schizoid personality disorder and hence not really much empathy. Yet I am very much human and I actually do help people every now and then, sometimes even a lot, mostly because it is the right thing to do.
I don't give a shit about the junkies, though.
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I don't get these celebrity overdoses (Score:2)
I don't know...if I had as much money as this guy had after being anointed a Twitter billionaire, the last thing I'd be doing is overdosing on drugs. If you're that rich you can pay for a non-contaminated known-good supply...and probably have a crew of people managing your intake.
That, and why is it that celebrities and rich people feel the need to do destructive things? Especially suicides...it just boggles my mind. You get these rockstars who have millions of fans, people of the opposite gender throwing t
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" No pity for a rich idiot who can't find pleasure in the world."
That's what I'm thinking too. How can you be unhappy when you can call someone and have anything you want, legal or illegal, delivered instantly? Or when you can make any problems disappear by paying someone? Or, if you're bored or need a change of scenery, book a first-class trip anywhere at a moment's notice?
Anyone who says having money is a burden for them is welcome to call me up and switch places. I would be the happiest person alive.
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Depression doesn't work that way, it is a mental illness. Most people who haven't experienced an actual depression don't understand how it feels.
Doesn't make the guy less stupid since there is a lot of decent medication and psychotherapy that is proven to help with a depression.