starts talking. hey, should colin be the ceo instead of rus? colin as ceo. and for rus, it was anyone but colin. the president took time today to meet with the rap star and trump fan, kanye west. it was a rather bizarre scene. i couldn t even watch it. i had to turn the television off. around that time, the end of the summer, rus calls me into another boardroom one day and tells me he has a big idea. and at this point, i was like, i need to start recording this guy so i can pin him on what he said, because he s so slippery. the company needs a hail mary. some thing that will make everybody tune back in to see what we re doing. and you know, if i m not the
when i first started hq hadn t yet launched, it was done data. what s the catch right? there was no catch. you could actually win real money. next question what is the most popular i was trying to make the questions funny. a heart emoji. he named the company againstr his penis, micro-soft. from this very warm studio. how very excited to be there watching this thing go live like from a room, everybody wanted to just like i call wch the baby grow. and we re back baby, hqcumbers, still working on that. this monday, russ and colin, co-founders and they were like
have to acknowledge this. it would be crazy not to say something. it is with a heavy heart that i must share some tragic news that has befallen the hq family. so i had the idea to say, like, let s go live at 9:00, and i will just, you know, eulogize colin. colin, or ck as we called him, was a true visionary, who changed the game twice, first with vine and then with this very app. you always wonder, like, what was he going to make next? thank you, ck. good night, everybody. we have no idea how mobile and media might have changed if he d still been around another decade or two. some people come into our lives and leave too soon, leaving behind an afterimage, a fading memory.
follow you around, make it a reality show. we could have camera crews here, right? you getting dressed in the morning. you know, talking to the audience and saying, what tie should i wear to the investor meeting today? should it be the blue one or the black one? you can get interactive feedback? it s like a comedian turned into a we can make it huge, make it really big and the company would be on the world stage. i m just like this is it s a kooky idea. i think it s exactly what the company needs at this time. it just seems comical, but he was just desperate to figure something out to get someone else in there other than colin. i don t think colin would be the best ceo for the company. he s gonna he s gonna tank hq
to revolutionize television. million plus of you, the most hq players ever in a single game. viewers in more than 80 countries. tech entrepreneurs are the new rock stars. we went from evaluation of nothing to $100 million in six months. we have super bowl commercials, billboards in times square. i ve never seen this level of abandon. it seems overwhelming. it is overwhelming. i don t know what happened with hq. it is a lot of mystery one big question mark. your co-founders you do think you start these things with your friends but they didn t seem like friends. it wasn t a good relationship. it was 150% pure and utter business. and that s it. colin, cuckoo at times.