From Recode: Colin Kroll, the co-founder and CEO of HQ Trivia, the gameshow app, died after an alleged drug overdose, according to TMZ.
Police discovered Kroll in his apartment in New York City early Sunday morning.
Kroll, 34, had recently been named the CEO of HQ Trivia, a company he co-founded alongside Rus Yusupov that runs a daily live trivia show with cash prizes. The duo also created the once-popular video app Vine, which Twitter acquired in 2012.
HQ Trivia was a quick hit, and Kroll was promoted to CEO in August after a contentious board debate about HQ’s future. The hope was that Kroll, the more technical of the company’s two co-founders, would be able to launch more trivia games more quickly as a way to combat HQ Trivia’s declining audience.
“Colin was extremely talented, a warm and caring person and I will miss him,” said Cyan Banister, an HQ investor from Founders Fund, who is a board observer at the company. “It’s too painful and too soon to discuss anything else, but my thoughts are with his family and the rest of the team.”
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