4.8 • 8.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Alyssa Breznak, and over the past year, I've spoken with founders and fans, investors, |
0:06.5 | engineers, employees, celebrities, all to answer one question. |
0:11.6 | What happened to HQ trivia? |
0:14.4 | The answer is a story about the absurdity of startup culture and the ego of its founders. |
0:20.0 | It's a story about virality and how companies navigate the attention economy. |
0:24.3 | It's a story about hope and promise, the trail and tragedy. |
0:28.3 | And at the heart of all of it is an app that drew millions of live viewers and was supposed |
0:32.5 | to be the future of TV. |
0:35.0 | Until it wasn't. |
0:36.7 | From the Ringer podcast network, this is BoomBust, the rise and fall of HQ trivia. |
0:41.6 | Listen now on Spotify. |
0:58.3 | What did I last see you fall? |
1:01.7 | I think I saw you in France, man. |
1:03.4 | That was it. |
1:04.4 | I ran into you. |
1:05.4 | I love Paris. |
1:06.4 | So long, man. |
1:07.4 | I don't know when I'll be able to see that city again, holy cow. |
1:12.4 | It's crazy. |
1:13.4 | It's crazy. |
1:14.4 | I don't know when I'm able to see America again. |
1:17.2 | I don't know how much of America there's going to be left for you to see. |
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