Colin Kroll

Colin Kroll (May 17, 1984 – December 16, 2018 ) was an American entrepreneur who co-founded the video hosting service Vine and the trivia game app HQ Trivia.

Early life and education Kroll was born in Rye, New York, or Detroit, Michigan, the son of Alan Kroll.

Kroll eventually returned to school, attending Oakland University where he studied computer science.

Career Kroll worked as an engineering manager at Right Media, a subsidiary of Yahoo!, from 2007 to 2009 and as chief technology officer at Jetsetter from 2009 to 2013. He met Rus Yusupov and Dom Hofmann while working at Jetsetter. Hofmann, Kroll and Yusupov founded the video hosting service Vine. Kroll worked as general manager of Vine through 2014. After working at Twitter following the acquisition, Kroll was dismissed following "bad management" and extensive allegations of workplace sexual harassment of women.

Death Police were called to Kroll's apartment in SoHo, Manhattan shortly after midnight on December 16, 2018, when his girlfriend became concerned after making multiple unsuccessful attempts to contact him by phone throughout the previous day. Kroll was found dead in his bedroom Drugs found in his system include fentanyl, 4-Fluoroisobutyrfentanyl, heroin and cocaine, the New York City medical examiner said, ultimately determining Kroll's cause of death to be "accidental overdose by fentanyl-laced heroin."