Its time for beat the clock. Are you tired you now have a chance to enter the jack not question. Doesnt even know what noninteractive television means . Are you tired of a sort of television that just happens at you . 50th Anniversary do you just sit in front of like a couch potato . Hello, whats this . Something wrong . Come on, interact with me this is hq baby, the Trivia Game Show on your phone where you answer questions to win cash so 11. 30. I was just excited to win. Youre our winner baby. Everything to play the game. We are talking about hq trivia joining us now cofounder. These guys are in charge of smart. We grew up watching jeopardy. Yeah baby both just a game and attempt 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. Ive never seen this level of abandon. It seems overwhelming. It is overwhelming. I dont know what happened with hq. It is a lot of mystery one big question mark. Your cofounders you do think you start these things with your friends but they didnt seem like friends. It wasnt a good relationship. It was 150 pure and utter business. And thats it. Colin, cuckoo at times. Egregious. You got a sense of game of thrones. Attacking in this industry will steam rolr funding. There is a lot of anxiety. You go to sales you might not have a job. You may lose your life in this. Some people come into our lives and leave too soon. In terms of approach, theyre ready, fire, aim. If there is a little collateral damage, so be it. We show difficulty in graphics, that is always a pun finance time. Oh glitch glitch glitch oh okay, lets see here, news as well as what we have coming up a little later on. App is making youtube feel so six seconds ago. Are you a viner . Im not a viner but i know all about it. That was a close one. Vine started in 2012. Instead of instagram a bead of still photos back in the day, vine was short videos. Vine was both interesting in fact of its limitations, you could only have a six second video and you only got one shot to record it. It had created this culturally phenomenon because the videos were so short. That let people make whole story boards in this short term time frame. That could be aclaiming of everything ending right at its own climax. It was so addictive. You could scroll for hours. People shared video memes, that others would show their video mixes on, creating this sheen of inside jokes. I even made a very few terrible vines myself. So what pioneered the concept that powers tiktok today. A video tease. I dont quite six seconds. It is an art form. To the founders of vine were colin crow and russ usepof. Colin crow was the big visioneer, this long term vision of how social media could change. A slew of open source technology. And russs Prop Designer and the manager. It was just writing a bit of a bio. Make it all happen get the pieces moving in the right direction and make sure the infrastructure was correct. Let me know that you guys are here. In may of 2012 we set out to make creating and sharing videos on mobile, very fun and very easy. At the time it was dreadful and we knew there was a better way. Twitter bought vine for a reported 30 million. Sold vine to twitter for 30 million. They actually sold vine before it even launched which was a very big surprise because most want to get big first and then get acquired. Video sharing app vine was launched just in january by twitter. Then russ sold vine to twitter. They went about popularizing these products. They helped going from zero to 60 million plus users. Mr. Crosby on vine. Perhaps when they were in the quiet before now being a part of twitter, who were these guys . They were accepting awards and they were like every industry event. Being celebrated as founders. You have ground so much and using in creative ways, where are you going . I dont think we had any idea when we started. We are just holding on. From nasa, the first vine video from earth orbit. Looks like youre well on your way now. But when had you acquired, you give up huge control. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday unfortunately, when vine wasnt quite growing fast enough and twitter, its Parent Company was in a cash crunch, it shut down vine. Twitter is shutting off the Video Vine Autopsy and Firing Hundreds of people. Hey bud heard about vine. Thank you guys for following me,. After twitter shut down vine, founder russ famously tweeted dont sell your company. I think russs tweet that it just showed you know, instant regret. Like, you know, what if . Like right, like if you hadnt sold the company what would happen to vine . Vine was tiktok before tiktok was tiktok. So you got to think that every sharehshareholder and manager at twitter has reconsidered the decision to shut that thing down. And even though they only sold it for 30 million, lets assume that the difference between 10 million and a billion is meaningful. I believe they felt they always had a chip on their shoulder of wanting to take another shot of wanting to build something truly big. I got a call from a friend of mine and he said hey marsh, im looking to get started on vine and they want to do this tribute show on the phone and looking for a host and i thought of you, do you want to come and audition for it . I never took anything, really, when it came for auditioning for things. Honestly, i put a decade into the comedy scene in new york grinding it out. Dont mind my laughing. I just wanted to join you. Subway for current video, that was like i had a little bit of recognition from that, but certainly didnt reach the point of getting offers from Comedy Central or network tv. 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Even though i work in the app world im not very in the know in what the cool apps are. I dont know if i would have everybody played hq if i didnt work there. I think what made russ and colin special were they were able to see the future before everybody else. My cofounder colin and i thought, hey lets combine the elements of live video, we loved watching gen jeopardy and wheelf fortune. Who doesnt want to be a contest ant on a game show . The making a huge early investment in snapshot was hq videos first investor. We saw it as the media really changing the gate. Went in on the first day to start generating graphics. What i really learned from russ was the art of minimalism. They handed me a sheet with about six colors. A circle, an x or a triangle and russ was basically like all right your job is to make this a whole universe. Because the idea is youre going to stair at this tiny screen for a whole long time. Its got to feel like its 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 scotts vision to develop the prototype. First question, where was the viral Video Double Angle . Once the people in charge saw that they couldnt separate them. Yosemite National Park is the right answer. Its 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, lets 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 didnt use vine, i didnt have a vine account. Six second video, that to me spelled the death of show business. Ive always been an old soul. I have jokes about jack benny and george burns and the Marx Brothers in my life. I loved the old comedy. So yeah this new fangled new age Live Streaming on an app like, to me, my hopes were, okay, all right, i think were all locked in here. And the very first shows were just internal tests. First question of the day . The s in mass, just so you could have an answer and it would register. The answer is space. And the chat would work, lets see, there was go live. This is live. This isnt a recording. Im talking to you right now. The first big shows were catching on like the new york tech community. Thank you for signing up, tell your friends about this. When i first started hq hadnt yet launched, it was done data. Whats 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, microsoft. 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 were back baby, hqcumbers, still working on that. This monday, russ and colin, cofounders and they were like coceos. Thanks for being here, Russ The Designer so hes supposed to be the more charismatic one, you know, hes got his tesla and had a vanity plate, viner, and just like, you know, talking about bitcoin. I talk about the entrepreneurs of the time. Im an elorn musk fan. Into the whole status of being in tech. What do you love about yourself . Everything. What is it full of . Russ was very handson, doing the pr, doing the design. He was doing the wardrobe. Scotts wardrobe. It was kind of comical, to find suits for scott, russ asked me to just take photos of every outfit. I had so many photos of him. Then russ was the one that ultimately like made the call to keep it or return it. Russ and colin did work almost polar opposites. I always got a sense Something Like on the first day that colin was a little socially awkward. Id been in tech so long that like most engineers are awkward. He was a genius at his craft but he didnt want to be seen. All he cared about was the product. Joining us now is the cofounder colin and russ. Colin did not enjoy being on camera. Where is the technology coming from . From us. What is your background . I was sweaty nervous. Colin didnt ever want to be on camera again. Russ was definitely more like he wanted the limelight. He wanted to be on camera. You dont need a team of a thousand sponsors and advertisers. We do have the flexibility to grow. So very early on some cracks started to form, you know, especially in the relationship between russ and myself. But for now, somebody comes home, the guy who owns this app thinks im dumb, the guy who hired me thinks im done. I didnt think i was becoming the face that he created, very early on we had awkward conversations that were slack over tech. This may be my last show because my boss thinks im dumb. Nice knowing you, good playing with you. But we started growing. Free free free two two two two one one one. Hq launched in august 2017 with a few hundred people. This is hq. Im scott your host. There is a big week coming up people and a lot of money on the table, 50 bucks. Definitely a snowball coming definitely a snowball coming down the mountain. Adulting sucks [background singers echo] adulting sucks you have to eat healthy. All the time . But fortunately. Your ketchup can be, no sugar added heinz. Youve worn many hats, from past jobs in fact. Now, you can trade in those hats to help earn your grad cap. Your past experience can help you earn your degree faster and for less. Im scott your host. We are live. Right now from Forest Hills Hospital in queens. I heard about it from one of my students and rather than try to fight for their attention i decided that it would maybe be funded. Lets play this, what its all about. Then we kind of all got looked. Apart from live sports or the oscarss or Something Like that. There are very few live events that People Commune around. If you answer this question correctly madam, youll earn 50. Originally Television Shows were broadcast life, is somebody going to answer the 64 question tonight. Washington . Yes, give that allocate she put everything she had on the horse. Lady godiva. And then we had the leap from radio to television where what used to be the 64 question goes on to tv as the 64,000 question. Yes, the 64,000 question. They were so popular to the point that almost one quarter of nbcs Broadcasting Slate were game shows. Can you win a new car. You are watching what is more or less a rags to riches story. There is that vicarious thrill that seems to come from watching someone else receive a life changing amount of money instantaneously. I think theres also a desire to become a player. Ready . One two three lets go. My name is eugene young and ive been a huge fan of hq for the last goodness, four or five years. Theres this shirt here originally offered on the hq store limited edition, there is this shirt here which i got for cohosting the show of hq, but theres also this option, this is the very outfit that i wore on who wants to be a millionaire Second Chance week where i won 20,000 and so i thought that might be a good option for today. Well, so i played about 2,000 games. After i played the first game i knew that every time hq had a game, i would do everything in my power to play that game. It is your first taste of the hq trivia pot pie. The things that really set hq tv apart from your traditional tv game show is the interactive nature of it. Constantly interacting with folks, there is that the host is aware you are there. Its friday night, the feeling is right, the party going down on the west side. Scott was incredibly charismatic. It was not that i was going to watch hq trivia, it was im going to watch scott. K k weve got a 43rd batch,. Ed fromy mercury is in retrograde. The fish, band fish, things i love, seinfeld baseball, i put out there. I improvised, when you are rolling, youre rolling. Im scott rodowski. The trap, aka Regis Philbin. Quiz daddy. Quiz daddy. 9 p. M, time to spend time with quid daddy. Sake em up, sake em up. It became obvious there was professional dynamic between russ and myself. I honestly think russ had some scars from the vine days. Allowing these viners to become megastars and russ was still fairly anonymous Behind The Scenes. Now another guy getting famous from one of his another of his products. In fact when this show gets bigger want to get a Celebrity Host like jim parsons,. And this is theyre going to replace you but i was having fun on the show. Pow pow pow pow, yahya yahya yah. You want to get down to the nittygritty and get the show on the road . Trivia game show you play on your phone where you answer questions to win cash. Im scott rodowsky. Act what you know. Its a tribe called quiz. May the best brain win. Jeopardy and he became a magnet for selfies. Whos your favorite host . Be cool, its 71 to watch. Millly rodowski, urban achievers. I am a god so i write about Tech In Culture and i write about the human side of tech, the hard core stories i guess you would say. I came about hq trivia. People were meeting at 3 00 all to play. The host, scott rodowsky, i noticed nobody had done a profile on him, thousands were tuning in every day and becoming this beloved cult figure online. Are you aware of a quarter hour of trivia mirth and mayhem . Gq wanted to do a magazine, a newspaper, and i had been dutifully folding all of these through russ and everything disappeared. I noticed we had mutual friends on facebook. There were a couple of friends saying,