palms sweaty nervous. colin was so uncomfortable, he never wanted to be on camera again. we realized that we ve created a new category. rus was definitely more like, he wanted the limelight. he wanted to be on camera. we do have the flexible to grow. so fairly early on, some cracks started to form, you know, especially in the relationship between rus and myself. but for now, someone thinks i m done. the guy who owns this app thinks i m dumb. great. the guy who hired me thinks i m dumb. i don t think rus loved the fact that i was becoming the face of the product he created. very early on, we had some awkward interactions over slack, in person, over text. this might be my last show, because my boss thinks i m dumb, so. it was nice knowing you, good playing with you. but we started growing.
2.3 million players again. final question. we re going to make a tiktok. who got it? who got it? it folded in february of 2020 and was mysteriously resurrected six weeks later as a shell of its former self. i m so excited! hq trivia is back, y all! yeah! i m technically an inventor. i m on the design patent for this app that i helped build. i watched it rise to being the most popular thing in pop culture in one moment in time. i remember seeing joe biden, before he was president, tell scott rogowsky that scott was more popular than him. and then i watched it all slowly go away. that isn t a new story.
nasa astronaut reid wiseman sent the first vine from earth orbit out to his twitter followers. it looks like you re well on your way now. but when you get acquired, you give up control. s happy birthday to you happy birthday unfortunately, when vine wasn t quite growing fast enough and twitter, its parent company was in a cash crunch, it shut down vine. twitter is shutting down the vine video app and laying off 350 people. which shocked the internet and stranded tons of creators who had built their livelihood on the app. hey, bud. heard about vine. vine s shutting down. thank you guys for following me for the last few years. after twitter shut down vine, founder rus yusupov famously tweeted, don t sell your company. i think rus tweet, it showed instant regret.
they still needed to experiment, and that was not rus s strong suit. words was supposed to come out the day that colin died, but that got delayed. and then by the time hq words comes out, the excitement s gone, the passion s gone. welcome to hq words! the app s already on the way out. it s getting old! if they had launched it at the peak of hq trivia s popularity, it could have been equally massive, but it was a little bit too little too late. it was an icy reception. no one at hq wanted to let colin down posthumously, because he had put all of his blood, sweat, and tears into this thing. but with rus at the helm again, there was really never a light at the end of the tunnel. in many ways, colin was the product. he had the idea and the know-how to do it. without him in our back pocket, it was kind of just a bunch of people thinking, what would he
always crashing. once it got popular, it seems like we weren t able to add any new futures. all the engineers had to immediately switch over to fixing problems rather than figuring out how to put new features into the game. colin was just focussing of making sure the servers didn t break down. making sure the technical side of the app worked. so everything else was really on russ. our engineering team every day they re working on making the service better and more reliable and the focus really is on delivering the best possible exper experience. [ cheers ] oh my god! oh my god! what did you win? i won $11.30. i don t remember the questions except for the last one. the final question of the day who composed the startup music for windows 95.