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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.
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.
We need more junkies to go balls-out and fucking overdose hard enough that Naltrexone won't save them.
Honestly, a municipality could invest about 1/2 as much as they're spending on treatment programs in free heroin giveaways, and in less than a year they could probably mostly shut those programs down.
Sure, trash pickups would spike, but I think that's a one time cost.
Why do we try to save addicts again? Let them go. There's 7+ billion people on the planet, we can start letting the marginal ones slip away.
-Styopa