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In the early-morning hours of April 4, 2023, Bob Lee, the 43-year-old Cash App founder and beloved Silicon Valley fixture, was stabbed multiple times and left to bleed out on the streets of San Francisco as he desperately called for help. No one knew how to make sense of it. Lee wasn’t living in San Francisco at the time, having decamped for Miami like so many other techies. He was an important figure in the industry, but hardly a name-brand celebrity. He was nicknamed “ Crazy Bob ,” but had a low-key profile and was a devoted family man. Pretty much everyone who knew Lee seemed to have loved him deeply —so who could have done something like this?

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