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In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2023
The precocious tech satellite has mislaid 1 of its own.
Bob Lee, who helped motorboat Cash App and was main merchandise serviceman of cryptocurrency startup institution MobileCoin, was killed successful a stabbing onslaught successful San Francisco aboriginal April 4. He was 43.
The San Francisco Police Department said successful a statement that officers responded astatine astir 2:35 a.m. to a study of a stabbing and arrived to find a wounded man. He was treated connected the country and aboriginal transported to a hospital, wherever helium died of his life-threatening injuries. No arrests person been made successful the case, which remains nether investigation.
While authorities person not confirmed the man's identity, sources told NBC Bay Area that Lee was the stabbing victim. Josh Goldbard, CEO of MobileCoin, besides confirmed the decease of his colleague.
"Our beloved person and colleague, Bob Lee passed distant yesterday astatine the property of 43, survived by a loving household and postulation of adjacent friends and collaborators," helium said successful a statement posted connected the website of MobileCoin's precocious launched outgo app Moby. "Bob was a dynamo, a unit of nature. Bob was the genuine article."
Lee was known connected Twitter and to his friends arsenic "Crazy Bob." And according to Goldbard, helium "got his nickname from h2o polo, but successful a way, it worked for the remainder of his beingness too. He was a idiosyncratic who understood the satellite successful ways I don't adjacent recognize myself. He was made for the satellite that is being calved close now. Bob was a kid of dreams, and immoderate helium imagined, nary substance however crazy, helium made real. Bob was made for the caller world."
Goldbard called Lee "the quintessential creator, leader, and consummate hacker," noting that "from ample contributions to Android astatine Google, to being the archetypal CTO of Square, successful that clip creating CashApp, and moving with america present astatine MobileCoin, Bob surely had an interaction that volition past acold beyond his abbreviated clip connected earth."
He continued, "This whitethorn dependable impressive, but Bob's existent resume is the hearts and minds helium touched successful his clip here. Bob's bequest is the feeling that you tin marque a quality if you try. Bob's bequest is his children."
Lee is survived by his wife Krista Lee and their 2 kids, aggregate outlets reported.
"Steve Jobs said that 'Real Artists ship.' Bob was a existent creator who shipped. He was arrogant to enactment amongst our guild of cryptographic artists astatine MobileCoin. Here's to the brainsick ones. We volition miss you Bob. We emotion you," Goldbard's enactment concluded. "For now, MobileCoin volition mourn. We crook our attraction to honoring Bob's bequest by holding his loved ones close."
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