Bob Lee, who created Cash App as chief technology officer at Square, was identified as the Mill Valley man who was killed in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday morning.
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LATEST April 5, 10:30 a.m. The tech world reacted with shock and grief to the news that Cash App founder Bob Lee had been killed in a stabbing in San Francisco’s Rincon Hill neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
“Bob was made for the new world,” MobileCoin founder Joshua Goldbard said in a statement. “He was the quintessential creator, leader, and consummate hacker.”
Lee had been working as MobileCoin’s chief product officer.
April 4, 11:13 p.m. A Bay Area tech executive has been identified as the man killed in a stabbing in San Francisco early Tuesday, according to NBC Bay Area.
Bob Lee, 43, died after being found stabbed on the 400 block of Main Street in SoMa. Lee was chief product officer of MobileCoin, the former chief technology officer of Square, and the founder of Cash App.
Police have made no arrests or released any information regarding possible suspects.
April 4, 3:15 p.m. A 43-year-old man from Mill Valley died after being stabbed in San Francisco early Tuesday morning, officials said.
The San Francisco Police Department said in a news release that it responded to a report of a stabbing at 2:35 a.m. near a high-rise condominium building on the 400 block of Main Street at Harrison in SoMa.
At the scene, officers found the man with stab wounds, provided medical assistance and called first responders to the scene to provide additional life-saving measures, police said. The man, whose name hasn’t been released, was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Despite efforts to save him, he died.
The San Francisco Police Department said in a post to Twitter just after noon April 4 that it’s asking anyone with information about the stabbing to call the department. Police have not made any arrests.
The police department reported 56 homicides in both 2022 and 2021, up from 48 in 2020. Since the start of 2023, there have been 12 homicides, according to the crime dashboard. At this time last year, there had been 10.
