Money App founder stabbed to demise in San Francisco – WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio

SAN FRANCISCO — Cryptocurrency executive and founder of Cash App Bob Lee died Tuesday at a San Francisco hospital after police found him with multiple stab wounds.

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His death was confirmed to CNN by Joshua Goldbard, CEO of MobileCoin, Lee’s current employer. He was 43.

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According to Bloomberg, the news of his death sparked an “outbreak of sadness” in the tech community. “Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature,” Goldbard said in a statement to CNN. “Bob was the real guy.”

In a press release, the San Francisco Police Department said that around 2:30 a.m. officers were called to the 300 block of Main Street. When officers arrived, they found Lee apparently with stab wounds.

Lee was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries but later died, police said.

Lee was a veteran technology executive and software engineer from Silicon Valley who was involved in the development of Android for Google earlier in his career. He was Square’s first chief technology officer, co-founder of Jack Dorsey, who later founded Twitter. Square launched the money transfer app CashApp in 2013. The app also allows users to trade bitcoin.

According to CNN, Lee joined MobileCoin, a cryptocurrency and digital payments app, as chief product officer in 2021.

“Bob was made for the new world,” he told Bloomberg. “He was the quintessential creator, leader, and consummate hacker. “Bob certainly had an impact that will last well beyond his short life on Earth,” Goldberg said.

There were no arrests.