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Like, you know, what if? like, right, like if he hadnt sold the company, what would have happened to vine? >> vine was tiktok before tiktok was tiktok. so you got to think that every shareholder and manager at twitter has really reconsidered the decision to shut that thing down. and even though they only sold it for $30 million, lets assume that rus and colin each got $10 million. the difference between $10 million and a billion is meaningful. >> and i think that meant that they always had a bit...

>> roger, 11. it certainly looks like youre well on your way now. >> but when you get acquired, you give up control. >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear -- >> 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 down the vine video app and laying off 350 people. >> which shocked the internet and stranded tons of creators who had built their livelihood on the app. >> hey bud, heard about ...

>> the quiz daddy. >> quiz daddy. >> quiz daddy. >> quiz daddy. >> thats what you thought of, right? you know, youre like, oh, 9 p.m., time to spend time with quiz daddy. >> shake em up, shake em up, shake em up, shake em. >> it became pretty obvious to me fairly quickly that there was some professional jealousy seeping into this dynamic between rus and myself. i honestly think rus had some scars from the vine days. i mean, he created a platform that allowed all these viners to become megastars....

Colin kroll and rus yusupov. colin kroll, the engineer, was the big visionary, the one that saw the opportunity for this app and this long-term vision for how social media could change. >> we run in ec2. were written in python. and we use a slew of open source technology. >> and rus was product designer and kind of the manager. >> i was just writing a bit of a bio. >> he was the one who could actually make it all happen, get all the pieces moving in the right direction and make sure the infrastr...

Thats always a fun time, right? >> now, glitch, glitch, glitch. >> okay, winston is here right now with a bunch of tech news as well as what we have coming up a little later on. lets start, first of all, talking about vine. >> twitters vine 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 where its like a feed of just still photos back in the day, vine was short vi...

Sold vine to twitter for $30 million. >> they actually sold vine before it even launched. which was a very big surprise because most startups want to get big first and then get acquired. >> the video sharing app vine was launched just in january by twitter. >> when rus and colin sold vine to twitter, they went to work for twitter building out and popularizing this product. and they helped it go from zero to 60 million plus users. >> kroll, he sold vine. hes not yours, hes vine. >> you should cal...

>> can we show the technicality difficulties graphic? thats always a fun one. >> oh, wow. glitch, glitch, glitch! okay, winston is here right now with the tech news as well as what we have coming up a little later on. lets start first and talk about vine. >> twitters vine 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, where its like a feed of just still photos...

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 o...

Like, you know, what if? like, right, if he hadnt sold the company, what would have happened to vine? >> vine was tiktok before tiktok was tiktok. so, you got to think that every shareholder and manager at twitter has really reconsidered the decision to shut that thing down. and even though they only sold it for $30 million, lets assume that rus and colin each got $10 million, the difference between $10 million and $1 billion is meaningful. >> and i think that meant that they always had a bit of...

Tiny screen for a long time. its got to feel like its really big. then, kind of as a favor, because scotts one of my best friends, out of all the people that auditioned, i took scotts footage and used it to develop the prototype. >> all right, first question. where was the viral video "double rainbow" filmed? >> once the people in charge saw that, they couldnt separate him from the app. >> yosemite national park is the correct answer? its so beautiful! congrats to those of you who made it to the...