Kroll Colin (Colin Kroll)

Kroll Colin (Colin Kroll)

Biography

2007-2009

From 2007 to 2009 Colin Kroll held a position of the technical lead of Yahoo company and worked as the technical director of the company of Jetsetter.

2012: Vine creation

In 2012 Colin Kroll, the House Hoffman and Ruslan Yusupov founded the Vine service allowing to create six-second rollers which was redeemed by Twitter company. In video service create short six-second videos. The application quickly gained popularity, the famous bloggers began to use its. Nevertheless over time service began to hand over positions, gradually it was forced out by Instagram and YouTube.

2018: Death from drug overdose

In the middle of December, 2018 it became known of the death of one of founders of popular video service of Vine of Colin Kroll. The TMZ portal with reference to a source in police writes that the entrepreneur died from drug overdose. He was 34 years old.

According to the edition, in the morning on Sunday, December 16, 2018, the girl Krolla called police, having said that she cannot contact it. After that law enforcement officers arrived to the apartment in the center of Manhattan and found his body in the bedroom. A row found traces of drugs and certain devices for their use. Police officers believe that the overdose by heroin and cocaine became a cause of death. Detailed expertize is carried out by medical experts.

TMZ notes that in 2015 Kroll was appointed the CEO of the HQ Trivia company developing the service of an online quiz of the same name (an analog in Russia - the game "Clover"). Employees of the company claimed that his behavior gave them an inconvenience, however any claims of sexual harassments did not arrive.

Also it is noted that the HQ Trivia application faced "steady loss of audience" while before Vine and HQ Trivia became the most popular applications in App Store. In January, 2018 the application entered in top-10 the most downloaded for iPhone, however by the end of the year fell below the 250th position.^[1]

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