Colin Kroll, the co-founder and chief executive of the popular HQ Trivia app, was found dead apparently of a drug overdose in his Lower Manhattan apartment early Sunday, the police said. The woman’s relationship to Mr. Kroll was unclear, but the police said she grew worried about his well-being. Mr. Kroll was 34. Before creating HQ Trivia, which live-streams 15-minute trivia shows typically twice a day to tens of thousands of mobile users, Mr. Kroll co-founded the six-second video app Vine, which was sold to Twitter in 2012 and closed down last year. Mr. Kroll went on to work briefly for Twitter, and later acknowledged being fired for “poor management” after allegations of inappropriate workplace behavior toward women.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2018 18:33 UTC