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🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | Every great business story has a few things in common. |
0:03.0 | A once in a lifetime idea. |
0:05.0 | Mobile entertainment will truly still be the wave of the future |
0:09.0 | and the way we consume media and, you know, those networks should be scared because HQ proved it. |
0:15.6 | It's a big personalities. Russ idolized Kanye West. Colin never really got the spotlight |
0:22.2 | because he wasn't that type of guy. |
0:24.0 | He's just a genius. |
0:26.0 | And plenty of drama. |
0:28.0 | HQ didn't die of natural causes. |
0:30.0 | It was poisoned with a lethal cocktail of incompetence, arrogance, |
0:32.0 | arrogance, |
0:32.8 | shortsightedness, and sociopathic delusion. |
0:35.5 | He took a $100 million company and brought it to zero |
0:38.6 | in less than two years. |
0:41.0 | I'm Alyssa Bresnack, |
0:42.2 | and over the past year, I've spoken with founders and fans, |
0:45.0 | investors and engineers, employees, celebrities, all to answer one question. |
0:50.0 | What happened to HQ trivia? |
0:53.0 | The answer is a story about the absurdity of startup culture |
0:57.0 | and the ego of its founders. |
0:59.0 | It's a story about virality |
1:01.0 | and how companies navigate the attention economy. It's a story about hope and about |
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