Bob Lee, a technology executive who founded the mobile payments business Cash App and had previously worked at squared, passed away on Tuesday after being stabbed close to downtown San Francisco, according to his family. Around 2:35 a.m., the San Francisco Police Department, officers responded to a stabbing report. m. Tuesday. The police discovered a 43-year-old man with what appeared to be stab wounds. After being transported to the hospital with grave injuries, the man passed away, according to the police. Lee's father and brother recognized the man as the victim, but the authorities withheld his name. According to his father's post, the two men moved from California to Miami in October and have been residing there ever since. After Bob Lee's mother passed away in 2019, their relationship had become especially close. The executive's return to the Bay Area was not immediately clear to NBC News. The chief product officer of the cryptocurrency business MobileCoin was Bob Lee. He previously held the position of chief technology officer at sq\., which is now known as Block. Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, co-founded square. Lee later developed the money-transfer service Cash App. According to his LinkedIn profile, he also contributed money to other tech companies, including Clubhouse, a social audio app, and Elon Musk's SpaceX business. For his LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, he used the handle "crazybob.". In a statement on Wednesday, the founder and CEO of MobileCoin said that Lee "passed away yesterday" and praised his business savvy. He omitted Lee's age information.
“Bobby worked harder than anyone and was the smartest person I have ever known. He will be missed by all those that knew him,” Richard Lee said in the post, which was accompanied by a news article about his son’s stabbing. “Thank you to those who have reached out in support.” “I’m so saddened and disheartened to lose my brother,” Tim Oliver Lee wrote on Facebook. “He really was the best of us. I was so fortunate to grow up with him, and I feel like I’ve lost part of myself.” “Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the genuine article,” Joshua Goldbard said. “He was made for the world that is being born right now, he was a child of dreams, and whatever he imagined, no matter how crazy, he made real.” In a Twitter thread, Goldbard said Lee was “like a brother to me” and praised the technology executive as a “brilliant” visionary with a “kaleidoscopic” mind.
