One of the creators of Vine was killed in his apartment at 8 a.m. in New York. It is speculated that it was due to an overdose.
Today we have to give the news of the death of one of the creators of one of the technology companies that marked the last few years. Colin Kroll, co-founder of Vine and former CEO of the HQ Trivia app, was found dead at the age of 35 in his New York apartment after a health worker came to the apartment for a check-up.
When she called and received no response, the woman decided to call the New York Police, they opened Kroll's apartment, who was pronounced dead at eight in the morning in New York on December 16.
The investigation is still open
Right now the New York Police are still investigating what could have been, but the first investigations speak that it could be an overdose, without specifying if it has been possible to commit suicide or involuntarily by taking a higher dose of drug than it could. assume.
Kroll was a man who had always been in tech companies. The most significant achievement is Vine, a social network of very viral six-second videos that was very successful to later be sold on Twitter, although years later they closed the application for not being able to give it an economic profit.
For three months he was CEO of HQ Trivia, an application founded by him with great popularity in which they participated in a contest similar to television that brings together hundreds of thousands of people every day.
At the moment few concrete details are known about the investigation, so it will take a few days for the official statement of the causes of Colin Kroll's death to be given.
Source: TMZ
