pitch. you know, here s why rus needs to go. here s why i don t think colin is the right fit as well. rus came to me with this idea. i thought it was crazy at first. but now it might just be our last hope here. jeremy thoughtfully considered it, and he he said, thank you for coming out here. thank you for meeting with me. rus wanted me in. i kind of left thinking, okay, this might happen. this might happen. and then about a week later, they had the vote, and and they named colin ceo. and to me t was like, well, you know, again, i tried. you know, colin, we ll see what he can do. look, he s a co-founder. let s let s anything s better than rus, right?
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.
really big. then kind of as a favor, because gus, you know one of my best friends out of all the people i auditioned, i took scott s vision to develop the prototype. first question, where was the viral video double angle? once the people in charge saw that they couldn t separate them. yosemite national park is the right answer. it s so beautiful. congrats. i think i got an audition for hq in april and in may they said hey man like you got the job. i said great, okay, let s do this so i came into the office. and that firstti my impression of russ and colin was they were very much like the pet guy vibe. there was a vine pillow on the couch. i didn t use vine, i didn t have a vine account. six second video, that to me
the board, which is small there s only four people including both co-founders starts talking. hey, should colin be the ceo instead of rus? colin as ceo. and for rus, it was anyone but colin. shortly, if not immediately after the conversation, i got a tip that there had been a formal complaint filed by an hq employee. this woman had a complaint against colin. i don t believe it was sexual in nature. it was more just like a sort of like the way she was being treated. and she brought that up to rus, and from what i understand, the general sentiment is that rus kind of used that against colin as ammo to kind of push away the whole colin as ceo notion.
let s now talk fortnight, shall we? this is one of those viral games that literally sucking productivity out of schools, out of workplaces. you can forget trying to have a conversation at home. right before christmas 2018, hq had their holiday party. i was hosting it. i went and got little lights on the table, the decor for the makeshift phone booth. i was kind of like mingling with everyone, just making my rounds the whole night, making sure that everyone was having a good time. i am frosty the host man bringing you dough, man. the elf of wealth. it was a really, really, really nice party. at the christmas party, colin was looking worn out. he was, you know, taking a break from drinking. he felt he was drinking too much. it s probably hard to watch all your co-workers get obliterated.