Well-known Silicon Valley hacker was stabbed to death in the street! At only 43 years old, Musk is angry

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A 43-year-old technology guru/hacker was assassinated in San Francisco, USA.

His name is Bob Lee .

He once served as a software engineer at Google, responsible for the development of the core API of the Android system, and later founded the famous mobile payment software Cash App.

Now the chief product officer of cryptocurrency startup MobileCoin.

As soon as this news came out, it shocked the American technology circle, and countless netizens expressed their condolences spontaneously.

MobileCoin CTO name:

The impact of his contributions will surely last longer than the short time he was alive.

At the same time, Musk also noticed the news, criticized and called on the local government to tighten supervision measures against violent crimes.

Assisted in Android system development and founded Cash App

According to an official announcement from the San Francisco Police Department, they received a call at around 2:35 a.m. local time on Tuesday (the specific time of the attack is unknown) .

When they arrived at the scene, they found a 43-year-old adult male victim suffering from obvious stab wounds.

Police called paramedics to the scene and the victim was taken to a local hospital, where he eventually died from his injuries.

As of the time when the notice was released (local Tuesday night after 6 o'clock) , the police have not arrested any suspects, and hope that citizens with clues will provide information as soon as possible to help solve the case.

The next day, multiple media quoted unnamed police sources as saying that the stabbed victim was Bob Lee, the chief product officer of the cryptocurrency and digital payment startup MobileCoin.

Bob officially joined MobileCoin in November 2021 as its chief product officer.

Prior to that, he was the CTO of American mobile payment giant Square (later renamed Block to embrace blockchain technology) , a financial company co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey .

Bob has worked at Square for more than four years, where he also founded the company's transfer payment software Cash App (similar in function to domestic WeChat and Alipay) .

As of the end of 2022, the App has 51 million monthly active users.

Going back a little further, Bob was a software engineer at Google, where he assisted in the development of the Android system (a five-year term) .

In addition to these resumes, he is also an early investor in SpaceX, Clubhouse, Figma and other companies.

So far, the San Francisco Police Department has not announced the latest developments in Bob's murder case.

"A huge loss to the tech community and San Francisco"

Bob's news spread quickly online, with countless friends, colleagues and netizens expressing their grief.

Bob’s current employer, MobileCoin CTO, issued a special tribute to review his lifetime contribution.

He called Bob a quintessential creator, leader and consummate hacker.

From his huge contributions to the Android system at Google to joining Mobilecoin to work with them, his impact "will certainly last far beyond his short life in this world."

He said that Bob originally came to MobileCoin as an early investor and advisor, and he was a strong supporter of business privacy.

He wants a world where you and I can trade freely without the prying eyes of predatory corporations and criminals. We are grateful and humbled by all He has done for us.

Figma CEO Dylan Field posted:

So sad to hear of the untimely passing of @crazybob . I first met him in the summer of 2006 - he didn't care that I was only 14 and talked to me about tech/geek programming. We've kept in touch over the years and he was an early supporter of Figma. It's hard to believe he's gone.

YCombinator CEO Chen Jiaxing said:

Bob's death is a tragedy and a huge loss for the tech community and San Francisco.

He also said that there were cameras everywhere where he was killed, and the truth should be known soon.

Some netizens said Bob is very approachable:

After having a long conversation with him about some technical details, I learned that he was actually the CTO of our company.

Some people also said that they had participated in his interview, but among all the interviewers, they were only impressed by him because he was the only one who asked questions that were not scripted.

R.I.P。

Reference link:
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/05/bob-lee-creator-of-cash-app-and-former-cto-of-square-stabbed-to-death/
[2 ] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457341
[3] https://get.moby.app/rememberingbob

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