CashApp’s creator, who was stabbed to death in California, had recently moved to Miami
Tech star Bob Lee left the San Francisco suburbs with his father for Miami in October and clearly felt good about the move, asking a San Francisco techie in March via social media, “How are you not in Miami yet?”
Lee was back in San Francisco Tuesday in the 300 block of Main Street around 2:35 a.m. That’s where San Francisco police say they found Lee with stab wounds that eventually would be mortal. Lee was 43.
“I just lost my best friend, my son Bob Lee when he lost his life on the street in San Francisco early Tuesday Morning,” his father, Rick Lee, posted to Facebook on Wednesday. “Life has been an adventure with two bachelors living together, and I’m so happy that we were able to become so close these last years.”
Lee created CashApp, a payment app, was a co-creator of Google Guice and, currently, was the chief product manager of cryptocurrency MobileCoin. In his LinkedIn profile, he called himself a “startup advisor and angel investor,” and said he led the core library development for the first few years of Android.
His father wrote of Lee’s generosity, work ethic, intelligence (“the smartest person I have ever known”) and “strict no-judgment philosophy.”
AbraGlobal CEO Bill Barhydt summed up Lee on Twitter with, “Bob was a dad, the former CTO of Square where he created Cash App & CTO of Mobile Coin. He was a generous decent human being who didn’t deserve to be killed.”
Anyone who knows anything about Lee’s death can call the San Francicso police Tip Line at 415-575-4444 or Text a Tip to 847411 (TIP411) with “SFPD” before the tip.
This story was originally published April 6, 2023 at 10:50 AM.
