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Bob Lee
Born(1979-12-20)December 20, 1979
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
DiedApril 4, 2023(2023-04-04) (aged 43)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Cause of deathStabbing
EducationSoutheast Missouri State University[1]
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • software engineer
Organizations
Known forFounding Cash App
Spouse
Krista Lee
​
(separated)​
Children2

Bob Lee (December 20, 1979 – April 4, 2023) was an American businessman and software engineer who founded Cash App. He was the chief technology officer of Square and the chief product officer of MobileCoin.

On April 4, 2023, Lee was fatally stabbed in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.[2]

Early life and career

Lee was born in St. Louis, Missouri on December 20, 1979, to Rick "Ricky" Lee.[3][citation needed] Tim Oliver Lee is his brother.[4] In 2019, following the death of Lee's mother, Rick moved to Mill Valley, California to live with Lee's family. Bob Lee and his father relocated once more to Miami in October 2022.[5] While attending Lindbergh High School[6] Lee wrote a 3D rendering engine in Turbo Pascal,[7] and became known as "Crazy Bob" for his exuberant energy in playing water polo.[1] Lee attended Southeast Missouri State University and pledged Sigma Chi. Rob Vescovo, former speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, was one of Lee's fraternity brothers.[6]

In July 2001, while employed at Ajilon, Lee wrote a program for Microsoft IIS to defend servers from Code Red, at the time a rapidly spreading computer worm.[8] Lee worked for Southeast Missouri State University as a web developer.[9] By 2003 Lee was employed as a technical architect at AT&T. While at AT&T, Lee developed the aspect-oriented programming (AOP) framework dynaop similar to the Spring Framework for Java, featured in Oracle Magazine. dynaop served as the impetus for JavaServer Faces's (JSF) migration away from AOP.[10]

Lee was employed at Google as a staff software engineer from October 2004[11] to January 2010,[12] and helped develop the Android mobile operating system.[13] Lee co-authored the dependency injection framework Guice with Kevin Bourrillion in 2006 while at Google to modularize AdWords.[14][15] Lee developed Guice based on ideas he had for Apache Struts, for which he concurrently worked on.[16] In 2008, Lee and Bourrillion were awarded the Jolt Award for their work on Guice.[17] Lee transferred to the core libraries team in 2007[18] eventually leading the team.[19] In May 2009, Lee created a Java dependency injection proposal with Rod Johnson,[20] and he was also part of the expert group for a Java proposal which added lamda expressions, as well as another proposal to add concurrency to the language.[21] Additionally Lee worked on Dalvik, an Android process virtual machine.[22] During Oracle v. Google, Lee was called as a witness.[23]

In January 2010, e-commerce company Square recruited Lee.[12] He became the company's chief technology officer and led development on the company's Android app, eventually taking over development on Square's iOS app from now-deceased co-founder Tristan O'Tierney.[24] After becoming the chief technology officer, Lee relocated to San Francisco from his St. Louis, Missouri home.[25] In 2013, he developed Cash App, then Square Cash. He left Square in 2014, investing in several tech startups, including Clubhouse, SpaceX, and Figma.[19][26] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Lee helped the World Health Organization with its app.[27] In 2021, he joined cryptocurrency payment firm MobileCoin as its chief product officer.[28]

Personal life

Lee had polydactyly before undergoing surgery.[7]

In 2019, Lee and his wife, Krista, separated. The couple had a son and daughter together.[29] In July 2022, Lee sold the family home in Marin County.[30] Krista and Lee's two children stayed in the Bay Area when Lee moved to Miami to live with his father.[31]

Death

In the early morning of April 4, 2023, Lee was stabbed in the 300 block of Main Street in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco.[26] Police were called to the scene at 2:35 a.m. local time. CCTV footage shows a wounded Lee stumbling to a parked car with its hazard lights on and lifting his shirt to show his wound; the car immediately drove away, after which Lee collapsed on the ground. By the time police arrived on the scene, he was unconscious. He was taken to a local hospital where he died from his injuries at the age of 43.[32][33][28]

Tributes poured in following his death. MobileCoin CEO Joshua Goldbard described Lee as a "force of nature" and a "dynamo", while Square CEO Jack Dorsey called the news "heartbreaking". Former Google employee Joshua Bloch wrote that Lee was "remarkable" and an "autodidact".[29] Other tributes include those by mixed martial artist Jake Shields and San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins. San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Matt Dorsey, whose district includes Rincon Hill, said that Lee's death was a "senseless tragedy"; San Francisco mayor London Breed said his death was a "horrible tragedy". Figma CEO Dylan Field, who met Lee in 2006, wrote, "It's so hard to believe he is gone".[28]

On April 13, the San Francisco Police Department arrested 38-year-old Nima Momeni of Emeryville for the murder of Lee.[34] Momemi had previously been working in the technology industry since 2005 and as the owner of his company Expand IT since April 2010. While working at the business, Momemi allegedly knew Lee.[35] Momeni also had a past criminal history for a DUI misdemeanor in 2004, and both allegedly selling a switchblade and driving with a suspended license in 2011.[36]

Publications

  • Tate, Bruce; Clark, Mike; Lee, Bob (2003). Bitter EJB. Shelter Island: Manning Publications. ISBN 9781930110953.

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b Lerman, Rachel; Mark, Julian (April 7, 2023). "Friends remember CashApp founder's zest for life, while mourning his death". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  2. ^ Hamilton, Katherine. "Cash App Creator Bob Lee Dead After Stabbing In San Francisco". Forbes. Retrieved April 9, 2023.
  3. ^ O'Brien, Matt; Har, Janie. "Few details in SF stabbing death of Cash App founder, St. Louis native Bob Lee". Associated Press. Retrieved April 7, 2023 – via The Missourian.
  4. ^ Drenon, Brandon (April 5, 2023). "Bob Lee dead: Cash App founder dies after San Francisco stabbing". BBC. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  5. ^ Evans, Greg (April 5, 2023). "Cash App Founder Bob Lee Fatally Stabbed On San Francisco Street; Twitter Ex-CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Killing "Heartbreaking"". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  6. ^ a b Walter, Danny (April 8, 2023). "Slain Cash App founder had ties to Cape Girardeau". Southeast Missourian. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  7. ^ a b Lee, Bob (December 20, 2006). "Five things you may not know about me..." crazybob.org. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  8. ^ The Screen Savers. August 2001. TechTV.
  9. ^ Salzano, Miabelle (April 6, 2023). "What we know about Bob Lee, the Cash App founder stabbed, killed in SF". KTVI. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  10. ^ Beernink & Tijms 2019, p. 12-13.
  11. ^ Beernink & Tijms 2019, p. 13.
  12. ^ a b Beernink & Tijms 2019, p. 25.
  13. ^ Mack, David (April 5, 2023). "The Creator Of Cash App Was Stabbed To Death In San Francisco". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  14. ^ Vanbrabrant 2008, p. 5.
  15. ^ Bob Lee [@crazybob] (January 12, 2010). "I originally created Guice to modularize AdWords w/o sacrificing up-front checking. DI was a means to an end" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  16. ^ Psaltis & Michael Davis 2008, p. 475.
  17. ^ Lee, Bob (March 17, 2008). "Thanks for the Jolt!". Google Open Source Blog. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  18. ^ Haase 2022, p. 146.
  19. ^ a b Hurley, Bevan (April 5, 2023). "Everything we know about the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee in San Francisco". The Independent. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  20. ^ Beernink & Tijms 2019, p. 22.
  21. ^ "Bob Lee on Java's Future, Lambdas, DI with Guice vs Dagger, Java and Ruby at Square". InfoQ. January 11, 2013. Retrieved April 7, 2023.
  22. ^ Tim O'Brien (October 12, 2011). Bob Lee, CTO Square, Inc. talks about the Java community. O'Reilly Media (Interview). San Francisco. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  23. ^ Brodkin, Jon (April 23, 2012). "Newly revived patent gives Oracle extra ammunition in Google trial". Ars Technica. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  24. ^ Lynley, Matt (December 22, 2011). "Meet The Most Important People Working At Silicon Valley's Next Red-Hot Startup". Business Insider. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  25. ^ O'Brien, Timothy (October 13, 2011). "Bob Lee on Java references and the state of Java". O'Reilly Media. Retrieved April 6, 2023.
  26. ^ a b Lerman, Rachel (April 5, 2023). "Cash App founder Bob Lee killed in San Francisco". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  27. ^ Holt, Kris (April 5, 2023). "Cash App creator Bob Lee reportedly killed in San Francisco stabbing". Engadget. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  28. ^ a b c Thorbecke, Catherine (April 5, 2023). "Tech executive Bob Lee dead after apparent stabbing attack in San Francisco". CNN Business. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  29. ^ a b Da Silva, Chantal; Arkin, Daniel (April 5, 2023). "Cash App founder Bob Lee reportedly killed in San Francisco stabbing, sources say". NBC News. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  30. ^ Jacob, Mary K. (April 5, 2023). "Cash App founder Bob Lee sold Bay Area home just months before death". New York Post. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  31. ^ Lukpat, Alyssa (April 5, 2023). "Cash App Founder Bob Lee Fatally Stabbed in San Francisco". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  32. ^ Drenon, Brandon (April 6, 2023). "Bob Lee dead: Cash App founder dies after San Francisco stabbing". BBC News.
  33. ^ "Update: Cash App founder, MobileCoin CPO Bob Lee stabbed to death in San Francisco's Rincon Hill neighborhood". CBS News. April 5, 2023. Retrieved April 5, 2023.
  34. ^ Ruiz, Michael (April 13, 2023). "San Francisco police arrest man in Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbing death: report". Fox News. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  35. ^ Eskenazi, Joe (April 13, 2023). "Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee — tech exec's alleged killer also worked in tech". Mission Local. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  36. ^ "What we know about Nima Momeni, suspect in Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbing death". KTVU. April 13, 2023. Retrieved April 13, 2023.

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