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Have to acknowledge this. it would be crazy not to say something. >> it is with a heavy heart that i must share some tragic news that has befallen the hq family. >> so i had the idea to say, like, lets go live at 9:00, and i will just, you know, eulogize colin. >> colin, or ck as we called him, was a true visionary, who changed the game twice, first with vine and then with this very app. >> you always wonder, like, what was he going to make next? >> thank you, ck. good night, everybody. >> we ha...

>> so the founders of vine were 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 -- 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,...

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. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ...

This very app. >> we always wondered what was he going to make next? >> thank you, c.k. good night, everybody. >> we have no idea how mobile and media might have changed if hed still be around another decade or two. >> some people come into our lives and leave too soon leaving behind an after image, a fading memory. colin is not one of those people. we were married in many ways. and i lost a partner. obviously, colin struggled with his issues as we all do, maybe for colin it was too much too soo...

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, ...

Capital to grow the company. you need engineers. in the case of hq, you need prize money. >> todays jackpot $1,000. $5,000. $18,000. $50,000. $100,000. you can actually buy love and happiness for that kind of dough. >> so clearly, they were fundraising but it was clear something was up with that and this report comes out which answered the question of like, why havent they raised more money yet? >> what i wanted to do was break news about who is investing in this really buzzy startup called hq t...

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 famousl...

Of like put out there. a lot of it was just improvised, and when youre rolling, youre rolling. >> the quizard of oz. >> the trap trebek. >> edward quizzerhands. >> quiz daddy. >> quiz daddy. >> thats what you called him. youre like, 9:00 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 jealous seeping into this dynamic between rus and myself. i honestly think rus had som...

>> nasa astronaut reid wiseman sent the first vine from earth orbit out to his twitter followers. >> it looks like youre well on your way now. >> but when you get acquired, you give up control. s ♪ 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 down the vine video app and laying off 350 people. >> which shocked the internet and stranded t...

Colin kroll and rus yusupov sold vine to twitter for $30 million. >> they actually sold vine before it even launched, it was a very big surprise, because most start-ups 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. >> girl, hes so vine. hes not yours, he...