the board which is small is only four people including both co-founders starts talking. and hey, should colin be the ceo instead of rus? colin as ceo and for us, 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 h kq employee. this woman had a complaint against colin. i don t believe it was sexual in nature. it was more 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 is ceo notion.
rappers, football players, even hillary clinton dabbed. things were really breaking down behind the scenes and a lot of it stemmed from this divide between rus and colin in terms of what kind of company this was. rus and colin did have different visions for the company. rus was all about blowing up hq trivia into this massive thing, right? like let s get bigger prizes. let s get bigger celebrities to host, and that s the future of hq. we re going to build this into a massive show. if we could get millions of people to engage for 15 minutes, 7 days a week, that that s that s incredibly powerful. my understanding from colin was we need to build a platform with a number of different game shows going. we re not going to put all of our eggs in one basket. and that was a pretty dramatic difference of opinion at that stage of the company because you only have so much money. you can choose to try and support the main game, or you
champagne and say, here you go, man. now please see yourself out and never come back. unfortunately that s not what colin did when he became ceo, and that caused all sorts of other problems. we ve had a hardware restart. . colin had a lot of responsibilities on his plate. this company had really started to stagnate. now it was really transitioning into the second act. he needed to come up with what was hq trivia going to be next, not just what it already was. we re on our game. we re creating the future. colin opened it up to every single employee to come up with, like, what they thought would be an exciting new show, and we literally pitched it to them. let s dive right in and meet today s bachelor. there was an idea for there to be a dating show, a comedy show. record-high pollen count. who the [ bleep ] counts pollen? where you can boo someone that s not doing a good job. things started to turn around
he kind of was in a bit of rush to get out of there. you know, he didn t want to be tempted. colin comes up to me, and he says, hey, v, i didn t want to leave without thanking you. it seems like everyone s having a good time, and i just didn t want to leave without saying goodbye. good morning. periods of rain today. low clouds. 39 with northeast winds at 15. the weekend after the party, i got a text with an article that had the headline that said that the co-founder of hq had passed away. the co-founder of one of the world e s most popular video games has died. the founder of hq trivia founder colin kroll was found dead in new york. colin kroll, co-founder of
and i said here is my pitch. you know, here is why rus needs to go. here is 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 said thank you for coming out here and meeting with me and 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 they named colin ceo and to me, it was like well, you know, again, i tried. colin, we ll see what he can do. look, he s a co-founder. let s anything is better than the rest, right?