we re creating the future. colin opened it up to every single employee to come up 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. it 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 not doing a good job. things started to turn around when colin became ceo. he gave everyone their autonomy. let them design and build. his platform was listening to people here and take feedback and work together to make something happen. colin had put so much time and effort into creating hq words. it s time for hq words. the next game that was going to be launched soon. we had balloons in the office. hq worlds ready to go with the new show. you could tell that colin was
hq. is this a joke? you might not know his name, but you probably know his work. he co-founded the viral game hq trivia and the video app vine. officers went to colin kroll s apartment early sunday after his girlfriend requested a wellness check. police say kroll was found unresponsive in his bedroom. other texts started flooding in. i was like, oh, my god. it was totally surreal. it was totally, totally surreal. i found out about colin s death on twitter, just being dumbfounded. i remember kind of reaching out to other colleagues and friends and trying to learn what had happened. i always thought of him as a surprisingly approachable,
colin fell into the role of the chief technology officer and effectively, rus started to be the coo, the chief operating officer. but the problem was that they were both kind of competing to be the ceo. the face of the company, the one who controlled the money. colin had very clear ideas about what he wanted to create in the world. and his ambition was to appreciate culture, right? to build the next version of television. that s a gargantuan undertaking. so i think he felt the pressure to try to live up to that. he was an awesome collaborator. he was also really challenging. i mean, it was not a picnic to work with colin. he had strong ideas. he was not shy about sharing his ideas. he drove the people who worked for him incredibly hard and he didn t suffer fools. he was a total pain in the ass.
i m drew patterson and i was an investor and adviser and consultant to hq trivia. colin and rus had different and complimentary kinds of skill sets. they met at jet setter. my next guest, drew patterson. i was the founder and the ceo. and we had great time together. lots of late nights. beers afterwards. those kinds of experiences created awesome cam raaraderie deep relationships and friendships. colin is an introvert, i suppose maybe i am as well, so we connected around that. rus and i had a professional relationship with, but we weren t friends in the way that colin and i were friends. colin was a world-class engineer. you look at what hq had to accomplish, colin was up with of the few people in the world. we definitely connect you closer with the people you know in the game. and rus is an incredibly talented designer. with hq trivia, eventually
normal person. just a single guy in new york, looking to hang out with friends, who happens to be responsible for this company and just, you know, it makes me realize he was carrying a huge secret around in plain sight. new york police found him unconscious in his bed, and they suspect a drug overdose as the cause of death. i never in my wildest imagination could have ever guessed that colin was doing heroin. colin died of a heroin overdose because there was fentanyl in it. that was like the point when i even learned that he was doing heroin. some people wanted to cancel the show. we re not doing a show tonight. we were debating, like, you know, what what do we do here, and how do we approach this? and i was like, guys, like we