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colin crow and russ usepof. colin crow was the big visioneer, this long term vision of how social media could change. a slew of open source technology. and russ s prop designer and the manager. it was just writing a bit of a bio. make it all happen get the pieces moving in the right direction and make sure the infrastructure was correct. let me know that you guys are here. in may of 2012 we set out to make creating and sharing videos on mobile, very fun and very easy. at the time it was dreadful and we knew there was a better way. twitter bought vine for a reported $30 million. sold vine to twitter for $30
million. they actually sold vine before it even launched which was a very big surprise because most want to get big first and then get acquired. video sharing app vine was launched just in january by twitter. then russ sold vine to twitter. they went about popularizing these products. they helped going from zero to 60 million plus users. mr. crosby on vine. perhaps when they were in the quiet before now being a part of twitter, who were these guys? they were accepting awards and they were like every industry event. being celebrated as founders. you have ground so much and using in creative ways, where are you going? i don t think we had any idea when we started. we are just holding on. from nasa, the first vine
capital to grow the company. you need engineers. in the case of hq, you need prize money. today s jackpot, $1,000. $18,000. $50,000. $100,000. you can actually buy love and happiness for that kind of dough. so clearly they were fund-raising, but it was clear something was stalling that. this report comes out which answers the question, why haven t they raised more money yet? what i wanted to do break news a news. i kept getting a version of the same answer back, which was super interested, but we have our reservations. and what i learned was that rus and colin had a reputation from their time at vine and twitter that was catching up to them.