After a stabbing incident in San Francisco, Bob Lee, the former Chief Technology Officer of Square and the founder of Cash App, has passed away. The news of Lee’s death was confirmed on Tuesday, April 4. On April 5, Bill Barhydt, the CEO of Abra, a cryptocurrency wallet com...
After a stabbing incident in San Francisco, Bob Lee, the former Chief Technology Officer of Square and the founder of Cash App, has passed away. The news of Lee’s death was confirmed on Tuesday, April 4.
On April 5, Bill Barhydt, the CEO of Abra, a cryptocurrency wallet company, announced Lee’s passing via Twitter. Barhydt shared a report about the death, which did not initially identify Lee.
I just got devastating news that our friend Bob Lee (@crazybob ) was killed in SF early today.Bob was a dad, the former CTO of Square where he created Cash App & CTO of Mobile Coin. He was a generous decent human being who didn’t deserve to be killed.https://t.co/RnzA1Idpun— Bill Barhydt (@billbarhydt) April 5, 2023
Jack Dorsey also confirmed the news of Lee’s passing on the decentralized social media platform Nostr. A screenshot of Dorsey’s post reads, “It’s real. Getting calls. Heartbreaking.”
During the development and launch of Square Cash in 2013, Lee served as the Chief Technology Officer at Square, which has since rebranded as Block. Today, the peer-to-peer payment app is known as Cash App and boasts tens of millions of users in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
From 2004 to 2010, Lee worked as a software engineer at Google, where he led the development of the core libraries for the Android mobile operating system. Additionally, he created the Google Guice framework.