[Old news] Mr. Colin · Chlor, co-founder of Vine, dies at the young age of 34 years old

Mr. Colin · Chlor, co-founder of Short Movie Sharing SNS " Vine " and Quiz App " HQ Trivia ", reported that the death of a drug was overdosed at home apartment on December 16, 2018 It is done. I was 34 years old.

HQ Trivia Co-Founder and CEO Colin Kroll Dead at 35 Apparent Drug Overdose | TMZ.com
https://www.tmz.com/2018/12/16/colin-kroll-dead-drug-overdose-od-hq-trivia-twitter-vine/

HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead of suspected overdose | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/16/hq-trivia-and-vine-co-founder-colin-kroll-found-dead-of-suspected-overdose/

According to the New York Police Department's announcement, the police asked Mr. Crawl's apartment in downtown Manhattan that she was unable to contact Mr. Chlor, and when Mr. Cholo, who died in the bedroom, He seems to have discovered it. Police say that "Cocaine or heroin's acute poisoning is the cause of death" because Mr. Crawl also had tools for ingesting drugs.

Mr. Chlor started his career as a software engineer at Right Media, an online advertising company. From 2007 to 2009 Yahoo served as engineering manager for search engines and advertising technology and served as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Travel Information Site Jetsetter .

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- New York Daily News (@ NYDailyNews) December 16, 2018

In addition, Mr. Chlor, together with Mr. Las Yusupov and Dom Hoffmann, established the SNS application "Vine" that can shoot and edit and share a movie of just 6 seconds. Vine began offering services in June 2012, but in October of the same year Twitter has been acquired for $ 30 million (about 3.4 billion yen). Mr. Chlor was active as general manager of Vine from 2013 to 2014. In addition, Vine terminated the service in January 2017 because of the decrease of users.

In 2015, Mr. Chlor established the service "HQ Trivia" which delivers live quiz conferences for users every day. The application of HQ Trivia was released in August 2017, and continued staying in the top ten of the application download rankings for five months, it was a great success in the United States. The Twitter official account of HQ Trivia expresses condolences for receiving the death of Mr. Chlor.

Our thoughts go out to my family, friends and loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.

- HQ Trivia (@ hq trivia) December 16, 2018

Mr. Yusupofu who both launched Vine also announced a memorial comment on Twitter.

I will forever remember him for his kind and soul and big heart. He made the world and internet a good place Rest in peace, brother.

- Rus (@ rus) December 16, 2018