Bob Lee, the Chief Product Officer at MobileCoin, was killed in a deadly stabbing in San Francisco. On Tuesday morning, at 2:35 a.m., the San Francisco Police Division responded to a report of a stabbing close to the 300 block of Primary Avenue in SoMa. He was taken to a hospital however succumbed to his accidents.

Shortly after, NBC Bay Area reported that the sufferer of the stabbing was Bob Lee, 43. MobileCoin confirmed the data in a press release despatched to Bloomberg and ABC7 News.

Earlier than becoming a member of MobileCoin, Bob Lee labored at Google for the primary few years of Android, specializing in the core library improvement. He then joined Sq. — the fee firm that later turned Block — to develop the Android app. He turned the corporate’s first CTO and likewise created Money App.

Bob Lee, also called ‘Loopy Bob’, was an investor in tech startups as nicely. In accordance with his LinkedIn profile, he invested in SpaceX, Clubhouse, Tile, Figma, Faire, Orchid, Addressable, Nana, Ticket Fairy, Gowalla, Asha, SiPhox, Netswitch, Discovered and others.

Following the information, there was an outpouring of grief within the tech group. “It’s actual. Getting calls. Heartbreaking. Bob was instrumental to Sq. and Money App. STL man,” Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Block, wrote on nostr.

“So unhappy to listen to of @crazybob’s premature passing. I first met him in summer season 2006 — he didn’t care that I used to be solely 14 and we talked tech / geeked out about programming. We remained related over time and he was an early supporter of Figma. It’s so onerous to consider he’s gone,” Figma CEO Dylan Subject wrote on Twitter.

“What a tragedy. I bear in mind Bob’s code that generates sure numbers. Bob’s code is in Java, but makes use of intelligent backtracking strategies to realize one of the best efficiency amongst many options in every kind of languages,” hintymad wrote on Hacker Information.

No arrest has been made within the case and the San Francisco Police Division hasn’t shared any extra particulars.