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Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose (techcrunch.com)
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.
Incels dont exist. Its all in their head.
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?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
So I had to look him up to confirm this, because I'd never heard anything about it, but... well, yeah. One less incel in the world, and Earth becomes a slightly better place. He will not be missed.
Such a shame, too. All he really had to do was grow the fuck up. Nothing Herculean or anything.
Who cares? The only good junkie is a dead junkie.
A good start.
Reminds me of the Google exec, hooker & heroin (except he was a married man & Google's surveillance on their yacht iirc caught it all). That, imo, was worse - family involved. The "beautiful people" who F up large (maybe it's what DROVE them more than anything though - it's possible - it reshapes your values to "only dope") - more to LOSE, bigger fall etc.
* THIS IS WHAT HEROIN DOES TO ANYONE & I'VE SEEN IT MY ENTIRE LIFE (70's-80's it faded, probably no more 'clients' left was why - it's a killer inevitably, but 1st, it turns you into a "30 days of Night" Vampire - mindless automaton with NOTHING on your mind but your next "fix"... I saw it "F-up" my older cousins in the 70's with other things mixed in killing them THIS century, finally (they did it to themselves)).
It faded in the 90's afaik (much less of it, sometimes in "artsy/fartsy" types though, theater etc. sadly) - then, a co-worker of mine in my last full-time job I worked said it was back. I was like "You GOT to be kidding me" & he said "WTF? Are YOU ASLEEP?? It's everywhere" in 2008 - I said "I don't 'run' w/ junkies so I have NO idea!" well now I do since then.
I've seen it TEAR APART families near me in my neighborhood & spur a CRIMEWAVE that's unbelievable to the point of others BLOWING others away over it, undoubtedly.
I saw oxycontin almost tear apart another relative of mine. Younger. He had the WILL, strength & RESOLVE + common-sense to PULL OUT before it took away his collegiate academia & leave him in TONS of debt (I mean TONS) - now, he rocks the planet clean for decade++ now & I'm proud of him.
I saw it DESTROY 2 roommates of mine too over the past decade - guys w/ potential. One even ROBBED A BANK, got put on probation + time served... only to be CAUGHT on a bank robbery 3 yrs. into that 5 yr. term BY DNA EVIDENCE.
I bet, knowing him, he was thinking "Ha, I got away w/ it" - no you didn't.
APK
P.S.=> Imo, it's what Bram Stoker TRIED to illustrate in "DRACULA" that 30 days of Night illustrates better (from what I've seen @ least)... apk
In after "just be urself bro".
I smoked meth with Colin just a couple days ago. This hits close to home. If anybody has any questions, I'll try to answer them.
That's kinda true.
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 with the cops refusing to even confirm that yes it was your girlfriend you called it in isn't a bad alternate either. Might not keep your grave from being vandalized, but...you're dead, odds are you won't care. And hopefully nobody'll dox your girlfriend which will keep foamy-mouthed incels from bothering her...but you're dead, odds are you won't care about that.
That's asking a lot from his ilk.
The guy was at Twitter for years and developed a rep for sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior towards female coworkers. He "apologized" and all...
Don't wish the guy dead, but he sure didn't deserve to work in tech. Guys like that poison the well and create a climate of suspicion. If you can't keep it in your pants around your coworkers, then get help. It's out there for you.
Here you are reveling in a guy's death, yet you somehow feel superior to him. Adorable.
Just gotta lift while showering 6 times a day bro.
ALl the biger namezz dot like he. Cocaine. Heroin. Bug namez.
I bet he considered himself a woke feminist too! The worst creepers and prejudiced MFs are always the dudes with a bunch of I'm With Her shit around their workspace, and always whining about Drumpf, in between sexually harassing their subordinates.
This is a pathetic attempt at trolling right there. How many incels do you think have GFs?
why don't you set up a HOSTS file to clean it up
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.
See subject: HOWEVER, for the 1 relative I noted who got right w/ himself & the world (boy, has he - blew ME away imo in the past 6 yrs. now)?
I TRIED to set an example & INSPIRE him. His Dad even asked me "what do I do?" & I was like "WTF? You're asking ME?? Ok - what is practical that has a future he's into, you get a match & pour gas on it to IGNITE that fire & frown on ones that aren't achievable for him" that aren't practical.
Fact is, many times & ESPECIALLY recently, He told me that I've helped him thru life (not as much as he says OR that I might've really imo) as I should being family (& I just felt it's my duty to do so best I can - avoid this, do that type stuff - I may not get it right FOR YOU, but odds are I will, & you'll make OTHER 'mistakes' (that's life, right?) but these, avoid like a plague - ESPECIALLY in college or you will be a SLAVE TO DEBT, forever & unable to finanially escape it).
APK
P.S.=> Things DO have a way of working out - do I believe it's Edgar Cayce (hellish reading that, try it out) "your role's already written"? Some, some not... we're in the river of life, you can row this way & THAT way vs. YOUR personal roadmap 'current' & won't escape the end result (pine box 6 ft. under) but you can do your best hopefully to row in directions until then that make it better for you & those around you... apk
Lack of empathy is a lack of humanity.
Yep, because the only good incel is a dead incel.
100 percent agree. Legalize everything, create government centers for distribution, round up the junkies and tell 'em to go to town. Need more? Help yourself! Let the mortality curve spike, then right at its apex, shut that shit down and re-enact all laws. Put the attention from that point on toward comprehensive/intensive full-flight, no-cost, no questions asked rehab for remaining + new users, with mandatory death penalty with 30 days from conviction to carrying out the sentence for dealers.
To be clear, there will absolutely be collateral damage as you suggest: People who were never drug users who take advantage of the easy availability and hop onboard the dismal train. But may as well expose that character flaw/weakness before they become wards of the state for something else later on.
Fuck drug users. Weak pieces of shit, flawed human beings. Lower than mongrel dogs fucking each other in the street.
Empathy/the greater good is recognizing the staggering cost that flawed human beings extract from society and taking all steps to isolate and remove that population. Whatever it takes.
The guy had more than enough money to pay for sex, which he likely didn't have to since ... wait for it ... he had more than enough money to pay for sex. I guarantee you that if he was celebit, it was not involuntarily.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
It's called the recovery "industry" for a reason. There is far too much money to be made when addictions is a problem for real solutions to be implemented in the US.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
There isn't a drug user on the planet who isn't both stronger and a more worthwhile human being than you.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Alu Snack Bar!!!
> celebit
Cretin.
The term is celibate, numbnuts.
Why do you hate dogs? Dogs do that on instinct.
A Member of tof elite SJW class had his own life taken away by Mexican Drugs.
The rich white liberal SJWs love the foreign invaders because they think it gives them cheap labor. However it is not the elites jobs being taken away. The elites dont have their communities being changed to the point they can no longer understand the ligua being spoken.
The rich Romans also loved the cheap Germanic labor that they brought in to do the jobs they did not want to do. Worked for a while, but over time the Germans ended up taking replacing the Romans all together, rich and poor. Maybe if enough of the elites have their families disrupted they might realize they are on the chopping block also. DRUGS ARE BAD, and so are the people bringing it in to sell to your grandkids.
Vine was an abomination.
Iâ(TM)d argue that human garbage drug users do it on instinct to; an instinct the rest of us have evolved past. Again: flawed human beings.
But, ultimately, youâ(TM)re right: itâ(TM)s a bad analogy since itâ(TM)s more insulting to dogs than the bags of walking shit that do drugs.
Can't collect that lawsuit money if you're dead.
So addiction is a uniquely US problem? Are there countries in the world where there's "real solutions"?
That's adorable. You're trying to make your little kid terms popular.
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.
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.
Elliot Rodger had a couple. None of them would put out for him, of course, but the fact remains that he had them.
Junkies aren't that strong. I beat the crap out of one that was shooting up in the stairwell at my place. I'm just a thin armed computer nerd and that sack of shit went down hard. Drug abuse(rs) can be beat!
buh-bye!
So can children! You're a dick
actually, he's a psychopath
Start with the psychopaths and sociopaths. Mandatory death penalty for these fucks. You can find them in law firms, banks, the C levels of many top company's (not all), and pretty much anyone that puts money over the wellbeing of society.
Being part of the first group, I don't expect you to get very far after doing the world a favour and sticking your head in a bucket of water three times and taking it back out twice.
Are equating children to junkies? That's funny. One group are precious jewels that represent our collective future. The other group are junkies.
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 themselves at them, and enough money to buy anything, go anywhere and experience anything...and they're depressed? It's inconceivable. Depression is not a disease of the fabulously wealthy. Money like that would solve any personal problem I had instantly.
Yes
What's a celebit? A fucking Pokémon?
I'm With Her shit around
Gross!
Ezekiel 23:20
Surely you meant celebyte.
Ezekiel 23:20
Stupid fucks self destruct. No tears shed here for a dumbass who overdoses.
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 we could have this massive crash of the economy 10 years ago, and I still don't see anyone really punished for it?
-Styopa
As long as we keep supporting, celebrating, and encouraging drug abuse we'll continue to lose young people.
Thanks for nothing, potheads.
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.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Only if he was celebit 8 times in a row.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Faggottrolls sure do love slandering the dead.
lol
And what is the point of "growing the fuck up for oneself"?
So you are saying you went down hard
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
That is prob the truest point on here. The chance they had to become an adult-they failed that test. I remember being 25 with all my rich yuppie trust fund friends who tried to pressure me into drugs and made it seem like I was the one ruining the flow of the night... they still post pics of pumping their fist at the shore even after 2 roommates OD. The men look like creepers and the girls look like theyâ(TM)ve been passed around & had some STDs in the process
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. But you still have to do it, and more to the point, you have to do it. Everyone else went through the process a long time ago, and it wasn't easy or pleasant for them either.