Wednesday, April 5, 2023

"Former Square CTO Bob Lee Stabbed to Death in Downtown San Francisco"

 From the San Francisco Standard:

Bob Lee, the former chief technology officer of Square, was identified as the 43-year-old man stabbed to death in Downtown San Francisco early Tuesday morning. The news was confirmed by his current employer, MobileCoin, to ABC-7

The San Francisco Police Department said officers responded to reports of a stabbing on Main Street near Harrison at approximately 2:35 a.m. Officers found a man suffering from apparent stab wounds. The man, who police said was from Mill Valley, was transported to a local hospital, where he died.

Lee was a longtime member of the Bay Area software development community who had recently moved to Miami.

After five years as a Google engineer working on the Android core library, “Crazy Bob,” as he was affectionately known, was hired by Square to develop its Android app and became the payment company’s first CTO in 2011. He was the developer of its Cash App (formerly called Square Cash)....

....MUCH MORE, the paper does a very comprehensive story on Mr. Lee's place in the tech exec community. 

As of this morning there are very few details of the killing