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H hq-cumbers. still working on that. rus and colin, they were cofounders and ceos. rus was the designer and so hes supposed to be the more charismatic one and the -- you know, hes got his tesla and, you know, had a vanity plate, viner. and just like, you know, talking about bitcoin. >> i look up to the great entrepreneurs of our time. this is a controversial response, but i think mark zuckerberg has done an incredible job. i am an elon musk fan boy. >> just one of these guys thats so into the wh...

Hq launched in august 2017 with a few hundred people for the first game. >> we made it! this is hq. im scott, the host. this is a live trivia game that you play from your phone. >> every showed a more viewers than the previous show. >> weve got a long weekend coming up, and theres big money on the table today. 50 bucks. >> it was daefinitely a snowbal coming down the mountain. at the invitation to lexus sales event. wayfair has deals so big that you might get a big head. because with savings so ...

All right. lets go, lets get rus on the phone. >> so im preparing to do the 3:00. im in the studio, i just put my suit and tie on. ten minutes before were supposed to go live. >> rus gets scott -- >> knock on the studio door. rus says, can you -- can you step out. we enter a small conference room. rus has his phone on speaker. ive got the daily beast on the line. theyre telling me that i threatened to fire you. i want you to tell them that thats not true. it was taylor and her editor. hi, scott ...

Narrative that breaks through the media that gets people excited, gives them something to talk about. >> the rock tweeted you should catch him on hq. >> hq trivia, well have a blast tomorrow. $300,000. >> that ended up being 2 million people plus. >> the moral in the office was really, really high. >> mustard for danny devito. >> he was asking engineers all these questions how hq worked. >> we were hiring engineers, writers and they had moved into a new office. ♪ ♪ >> it just felt like we we...

>> the president took time today to meet with the rap star kayne west. i was a bizarre scene. >> i couldnt watch it. i had to turn the tvelevision off. >> rus calls me into a boardroom one day and tells me he has a big idea and at this point, i was like i need to start recording this guy so i can like pin him on what he says because he just -- theres -- hes so slippery. >> the company needs a hail mary, some thing that will make everybody tune back in and, you know, im not the ceo and colin isnt...

With something, hq trivia founder, if you run this article, ill fire the host. on twitter, glued for like hours. like, refreshing and other journalists were like, holy shit. >> this whole became a whole scandal of its own. all this media coverage laughing about how sensitive this founder was. hashtag free scott was trending. people thought that i was being held captive. that i couldnt eat at certain places without permission. it kind of -- the internet went wild with it. >> when the sweet green ...

Hosting at hq, and that was that. when i finally announced on twitter, like formally said, you know, im no longer at hq and ive got this new show, im really excited about it. and all the tributes started coming in, and the rock tweeted at me, and that was trending on twitter for a weekend, the fact that i left hq. and people were upset that like, you know, wheres the farewell show? it would have been nice to do for the fans. its like, how do you not see how bad this looks? so if scott leaves in ...

Cho achievers. >> scott, scott! >> i am a god! >> so i write about tech in culture and the human side of tech in culture. >> the trivia game show you play on your phone. >> i came across hq trivia like everyone else on the internet. >> you won! >> people in the newsroom were meeting at 3:00 to all play. >> im your host with the most,. >> i had noticed that nobody had done a profile of him, about this person that, you know, thousands of people were tuning into every day and was baecomin this belo...

Im scott, your host. we are live. looks like we have some people playing right now from forest hills high school in queens. >> i had heard about it from some of my students and rather than try to fight for their attention, i decided that it would maybe be fun to be like, lets play this. lets see what this is all about. we all kind of got hooked on it. >> what school are you representing? let me know in the chat there. >> apart from live sports or the oscars or something like that, there were ver...

2.3 million players again. >> final question. were going to make a tiktok. >> who got it? who got it? >> it folded in february of 2020 and was mysteriously resurrected six weeks later as a shell of its former self. >> im so excited! hq trivia is back, yall! yeah! >> im technically an inventor. im on the design patent for this app that i helped build. i watched it rise to being the most popular thing in pop culture in one moment in time. i remember seeing joe biden, before he was president, tell ...