(CMR) Bob Lee, Cash App founder and executive at cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin, died in hospital after he was stabbed in downtown San Francisco Tuesday morning.
The San Francisco Police Department said officers responded to a report of a stabbing at around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday. They found Lee (43) with apparent stab wounds. He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died, police said.
Lee was the first chief technology officer at Square, a digital payment company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
“Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature,” Joshua Goldbard, the CEO of MobileCoin, told ABC News in a statement.
“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,” Goldbard added.
Lee worked at Google, where he helped develop Android during the 2000s.
“Bob's real resume is the hearts and minds he touched in his time on earth. Bob's legacy is the feeling that you can make a difference if you try and, of course, his amazing children,” Goldbarb said.
Rick Lee, Bob’s father, in a statement on Facebook, said, “I just lost my best friend.”
“Bob would give you the shirt off his back. He would never look down on anyone and adhere to a strict no-judgment philosophy,” the father wrote.
Lee is survived by his wife, Krista, and their two children.
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