Cash App Creator Bob Lee Stabbed To Death In San Francisco

Bob Lee, a pioneer in financial technology that created the application of the mobile payment platform, was stabbed Tuesday in San Francisco, his family said. He was 43 years old.

San Francisco police said in a statement That the officers were called concerning a stabs around 2:35 am in the city center of the city, where they discovered a 43-year-old man with stab wounds.

He was then taken to a local hospital but died of his injuries.

“No arrest has been made and it remains an active investigation,” said the police.

The police did not appoint the victim, but his family identified him in Facebook statements.

“I just lost my best friend,” Rick Lee wrote about his son.

“Bobby worked harder than anyone and was the most intelligent person I have ever known. He will miss all those who knew him,” he added.

“I am so saddened and discouraged to lose my brother,” wrote Tim Oliver Lee. “He was really the best of us. I had the chance to grow with him, and I feel like I lost a part of myself.”

Joshua Goldbard, CEO of the Payment Company Mobolecoin, where Lee had worked as product manager, also confirmed to Buzzfeed News that Lee had died.

“Our dear friend and colleague, Bob Lee, died yesterday at the age of 43, survived a loving family and a collection of close friends and collaborators,” Goldbard said in a statement.

“Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature. Bob was the real article,” he added. “He was made for the world who was born at the moment, he was a child of dreams, and everything he imagined, as crazy, he made himself real.”

Lee began working at Google in 2004 as a staff software engineer and soon worked to develop the Android mobile operating system.

In 2010, Lee began working as the first director of technology in Square, the electronic commerce company created by the co -founder of Twitter Jack Dorsey which is now known as the block.

This is where Lee created what is now known as Cash App, which allows users of the United States and the United Kingdom to send money via their mobile phones.

In a Podcast interviewLee said he had created the service as a parallel project because he had been frustrated by the difficulty of withdrawing from Paypal money and because he thought there was a market for peers.

As a father, he said that he also wanted to be able to pay the baby-sitter of his children without having to stop in an automatic counter to get money.

“It was very fun. It was a great learning experience, and it was interesting to come with a new perspective and to question the hypotheses that other people were doing,” said Lee.

“The best ideas are not obvious before they are-and then they are very obvious,” he said.

Lee then joined MobocoLoin, first as an investor and advisor, then as director of chief products of the company.

“Bob surely had an impact that will last far beyond his short period of time on earth,” said Goldbard. “It may seem impressive, but Bob’s real CV is the heart and mind that he touched in his time on earth. Bob’s inheritance is the feeling that you can make a difference if you try, and of course his incredible children.”