His family said that Bob Lee, a pioneer in financial technology who created a mobile payment platform application, was stabbed to death in San Francisco on Tuesday. It was 43.
San Francisco police said in A. statement These officers were summoned regarding an appeal at about 2:35 am in the downtown area, where they discovered a 43 -year -old man with stab wounds.
He was later transferred to a local hospital, but he died of his wounds.
The police said, “No arrests have been made and this is still an active investigation.”
The officers did not mention the victim, but his family identified it in data on Facebook.
“I lost my dearest friends,” Rick Lee books About his son.
“Bobby worked hard more than anyone and was the smartest person I knew at all. Everyone who knows him will miss him,” he added.
“I am very sad and frustrated to lose my brother,” Tim Oliver Lee books. “It was the best of us. I was very lucky to grow up with him, and I feel that I lost a part of myself.”
Joshua Gold Bard, CEO of the payment company, MobileCoin, confirmed that I had a senior product official, on Buzzfeed News that Lee had died.
“Our dear friend and colleague, Bob Lee, died yesterday at the age of 43, who survived a family of love and a group of close and cooperative friends,” Golddd said in a statement.
“Bob Dinamo was the power of nature. Bob was the real article,” he added. “He was made for the world that is now born, and he was a child of dreams, and anything he imagined, regardless of the madness, has become real.”
Start a job At Google in 2004 as an employee software engineer and was soon working to develop the Android Mobile operating system.
In 2010, Lee started working as the first technology official in Square, the e -commerce company created by the founder of Twitter Coftern Jack Dormyy now known as Block.
Lee has now created what is now known as the App Cash, which allows users in the United States and the United Kingdom to send money to each other via their mobile phones.
in Podcast interviewHe told me that he had created the service as a side project because he felt frustrated about the difficulty of obtaining money from PayPal and because he believed that there is a market for payments from peers.
As a father, he said that he also wants to be able to pay his children without having to stop at ATMs to get money.
“It was a lot of fun. It was a great educational experience, and it was interesting to face a new perspective and question the assumptions of others.”
“The best ideas are not clear until they are – then they are very clear,” he said.
Later joined me on MobileCoin, first as an investor and a consultant, and then as the company’s chief product.
“Bob certainly had an effect that exceeds his short time on Earth,” said Golddard. “This may seem impressive, but the true biography of Bob is the hearts and minds that you touched on the time on Earth. Bob’s legacy is the feeling that you can make a change if you try, and of course his amazing children.”