Colin Kroll biography
Colin Kroll was a successful american it guru who is best known for being one of the co-foundeders of the video hosting service vine and the trivia game app hq trivia.
At Right Media, a sublet of Yahoo, Kroll took the position of an engineering manager from 2007 to 2009 and as chief technology officer at Jetsetter from 2009 till 2013. He met Rus Yusupov and Dom Hofmann while working at Jetsetter.
Obviously, it was in his relationship with Dom Hofmann and Rus Yusupov that gave birth to the popular hosting service we have today as Vine which came to limelight in June 2012.
Subsequently, the company was acquired by Twitter Four Months after its launch in October 2012 for a reported whopping sum of $30 million but was later reformed as Intermedia Labs.
Vine was adopted on January 24, 2013, as a free mobile app for iOS devices.
Colin Kroll’s Workplace Controversy
In line with his high-Tech knowledge and aspirations, In the beginning of the year 2014, Kroll served as Vine’s general manager for a short period of time at Twitter,
According to some reliable sources, he was later fired from Twitter for being a bad manager after a year and 6 months Twitter acquired his other startup Vine, says three reliable people with direct knowledge of the situation.
On the other hand, he also earned a reputation while working with the Vine team, which was said to be a creepy behavior towards women that made them uncomfortable with him at work, this is according to his numerous former colleagues, a reputation that in turn affected HQ’s fundraising efforts negatively.
As expected, these characters really did turn off at least one investor who considered putting money into HQ. While some who decided to stick with the company and invest really left a negative remark as to Kroll’s attitude, describing him as egregious.
His remark was without details of what he actually ment about Colin. So many ex Twitter employees who worked with Kroll passed on to Recode that they also heard that Kroll lives a creepy life toward women while working at Vine.
Since Recode does not have any tangible evidence of any sexual harassment amidst complaints that were filed with Twitter about Kroll. He never commented it.
However, in as much as some folks may have decided to give Colin bad reviews, there is actually some good sides of him as testified by some of his friends and work-mates:
Kroll, was said to have grown up in Bloomfield Hills and schooled at Oakland University, was always in happy mood in front of a computer, according to friends and coworkers.
He was reportedly shy and soft-spoken, he was uncomfortable in the limelight, When reporters wanted to talk about his companies, he preferred other executives to do the representation in a bid to avoid the cameras.
Colin Kroll cause of death
Kroll, who died at the age of 34 in December 2018 was prior to his death announcement, found dead by the Police at his Manhattan home in SoHo following failed attempts by his girlfriend to call him directly.
Nearby to where he was lying faced down on his bed were the visible signs of drug use: empty vials, glassine envelopes and a powdery mixture. It was thereafter gathered that Colin Kroll died of Drug intake Overdose containing a lethal mixture of, among other things, heroin, cocaine and fentanyl.
One suspicious trace was left on Mr. Colins mobile device where a series of recent text messages requesting, of all things, a “shirt” and a “book”.
The number Kroll was texting eventually led law enforcement agencies to a drug-delivery operation that ran like a food delivery app.
Surprisingly, he was a customer of Mike’s Candyshop, which according to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, which announced the arrest of Six suspects believed to have been running a drug-delivery operation and have supplied Colins drugs disguised as food deliveries.
Few months after, six men accused of running the operation (Mike’s Candyshop) were arrested and charged to court with conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine.
Not minding his reported behaviour at work, Kroll has some colleagues in the work place that found him pleasing and trustworthy.
One of those is Scott Rogowsky, the host of the popular mobile game HQ Trivia. One of his tribute posts on social media was an emotional message he dropped a day after Colin’s death.
Rogowsky announced the death of his friend Colin Kroll, HQ Trivia CEO and co-founder, and also co-founder of Vine.
He says
“It is with a heavy heart I must share some tragic news that has befallen the HQ family,” Rogowsky said.
“Colin, or C.K. as we called him, was a true visionary who changed the game twice — first with Vine and then with this very app that you’re seeing and hearing me through right now.”
Rogowsky went on to say that Kroll, 35, was a good friend and colleague, and “a good person of compassion and generosity.”
In a bid to recognise their big loss in the person of Kroll, HQ Trivia did not air its regularly scheduled $25,000 show. (It will return at 9:00 p.m. ET on Monday.) In line with the missed show, HQ Trivia fulfilled their promise of donating the $25,000 to the Humane Society all in Colin’s honor.
Colin Kroll’s Age
The young Colin was born in Rye, New York in the year 1984, Kroll was the son of Alan Kroll. His mother’s name is yet undisclosed to the internet.
After his parents’ eventual split that occurred when he was 10 years old, Kroll was then raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan leading to his dropping out of community college to work on coding for local businesses. [3]
Kroll after all returned to school, attending Oakland University where he studied his dream course, computer science.
He eventually died in the midnight on the 16th of December 2018.
Colin Kroll net worth
Colin Kroll’s video app Vine, founded alongside Rus Yusupov & Dom Hofmann, was reportedly purchased by Twitter for $30 million (US dollars).
As the Tech world knows and would always testify, he was a successful entrepreneur, IT guru in the silicon valley.
His another Trivia game app made it to Apple’s free game top chart in 2018. His net worth was roughly placed at about $36 million in total.