Colin Kroll was an American entrepreneur known primarily as a co-founder of Vine and co-founder/CEO of HQ Trivia. He was found dead from an apparent drug overdose on December 16, 2018 in New York, New York. ^[1]

Kroll attended Andover High School. He later attended Oakland University where he studied computer science.

He started his career as a software engineer at Right Media Right Media in 2006, which went on to be acquired by Yahoo. From then until 2011, he led the engineering team in Yahoo’s search and advertising tech group before joining Jetsetter as Vice President of Product, where he went on to be promoted to chief technology officer.

In 2012, he left to start Vine with co-founders Dominik Hofmann and Rus Yusopov.

He later joined Twitter in 2014, but was fired after he was determined to be a bad manager.

On Sunday December 16, 2018, shortly after midnight, Kroll was found dead by officers who had gone to check on Kroll after getting a call asking for a wellbeing check.

Kroll was found unconscious and unresponsive on his bed.

It was reported that the cause of death was from an apparent drug overdose of cocaine and heroin.