J. Michael Cline -- founder of movie ticketing app Fandango -- has died after leaping from a building in New York City ... TMZ has confirmed.

Law enforcement sources tell us ... the entrepreneur jumped from the 20th floor of The Kimberly Hotel in Manhattan, landing in a third-floor courtyard early Tuesday morning.
We're told he left a suicide note in the room that reads, "So sorry. I can’t explain the pain of f****** up this much. I love you all." Our sources say he then went out onto the balcony and jumped.
https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/17/fanda...-suicide-note/

Oh my god

In before the obvious picture reply (from IT Crowd).

That's just nuts, I wonder what could be so bad.

Not selling enough Criterion Collection downloads? I wondered the same.
Of course the thing is depression (if that's what was at play here, and that is very likely) makes the bad worse, and it just snowballs from there. Doesn't even need to be anything truly bad, other than if that's part of the story, he wasn't getting the help he needed.

Maybe he sold too soon for peanuts? That story that Justin Timberlake tells about Victoria's Secret in The Social Network stuck with me.

I’ve read stories about Golden Gate Bridge jumpers, who survived miraculously. The moment they jumped, they instantly regretted it.

Terrifying to think of his final moment

No insight on this particular case but a surprising number of high-powered finance/corporate types have died this way in Manhattan, jumping off high-rise buildings. Some have suggested they crossed the wrong people.

Yep, I always think of this example when I hear about suicide. The finality of it... and those that have survived, their instant regret is terrifying.

You can't really explain suicide attempts and what makes a person try unless you go through it. I am twice failure at it and am now glad that I didn't succeed. Lots of help and therapy and a long journey.

I'm glad you're here, stvn1974.

Sad the guy died and was going through some personal turmoil. RIP

But, not sure why this topic is in "Streaming Talk" He founded the movie tickets platform. Not Vudu, which they got from Walmart.

Poor guy... even his thread isn't doing well.