The chief product officer of Mobile Coin and the creator of the mobile payment business Cash App, Bob Lee, was attacked in San Francisco yesterday.
About 2.35 am on Tuesday, members of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) responded to reports of a stabbing in the Rincon Hill area of the city.
When they arrived, a 43-year-old guy was there with “life-threatening” wounds.
He was attended to on the spot before being sent to a nearby hospital, where he passed away.
The victim’s identity has not yet been released by authorities, but friends identified him as Bob Lee, a software developer who previously worked for Google, where he helped develop early Android cell phones, and Square.
While working for Square, a firm founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and billionaire Jim McKelvey, he was responsible for developing the company’s mobile payment app. This project was eventually launched as Cash App in 2013.
Dorsey confirmed the news about Lee on Nostr, a distributed social media network.
‘It’s real. Getting calls. Heartbreaking. Bob was instrumental to Square and Cash App. STL guy,’ the ex-Twitter CEO wrote.
Lee later became the chief product officer for cryptocurrency startup MobileCoin.
‘Bob was a force of nature,’ MobileCoin CEO Joshua Goldbard told ABC7. ‘Helped to birth Android and CashApp into our world. Moby was his dream: a privacy protecting wallet for the 21st Century. I will miss him every day.’
Lee also worked as an angel investor, providing startup funds for companies including SpaceX, Clubhouse, Tile, Figma, Faire, Orchid, Addressable, Nana, Ticket Fairy, Gowalla, Asha, SiPhox, Netswitch, and Found, according to his LinkedIn page.
Police have made no arrests, and have not identified any details about possible suspects. The case remains under investigation by the SFPD Homicide Detail.