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According to his family and the police, Bob Lee, a technology executive who founded the mobile payment company Cash App and 

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previously worked at Square, passed away on Tuesday after being stabbed close to downtown San Francisco.

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Around 2:35 a.m. on Tuesday, according to San Francisco police, officers responded to a report of a stabbing.

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 The police discovered Robert Lee, 43, who appeared to have been stabbed. Police said that after being taken to a hospital, he passed away from his wounds.

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In a statement released on Wednesday evening, Police Chief Bill Scott described the incident as a terrible crime but noted that the investigation was in its early stages.

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The police department's homicide detail is looking into the incident, according to the department.

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The chief product officer of the cryptocurrency business MobileCoin was Bob Lee.

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Prior to joining Block, he served as chief technology officer of Square, a financial technology start-up co-founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Square is now known as Block.

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The father and son had been living in Miami since October after moving from California