Tuesday, San Francisco's exactly see On April fourth, twenty twenty three, around two in the morning, a man was found stabbed multiple times on a sidewalk in downtown San Francisco.
Great, is it plase you from Bloomberg Podcasts? This is Foundering the killing of Bob Lee. I'm your host, Sean Wen. The murder was at least initially something of a mystery, and in the breaking news a tech executive is dead. He was stabbed in San Francis.
Victim as Bob Lee, the founder of cash app.
I didn't really know how to express to my child, like what words that you're supposed to use?
I couldn't bear to listen to the nine to one one.
Recording tributes from the tech world pouring in. Elon Musk even weighing in. But what happens next turned the story from a personal tragedy into a political firestorm.
I would bet dollars to dimes that the story is very similar to a case we had in la recently where a young woman was basically stabbed for no reason by a psychotic, homeless person.
So what actually happened this season on Foundering will tell you the story of the tech industry's most notorious murder.
All of a sudden, his name became a household word for the worst of reasons, and it just pissed me off.
Oh that's the guy who cut my friends.
If it's true, definitely both of these men are on drugs and it probably has something to do with Kauzar.
What did this death mean to a city in crisis, to an industry that was just beginning to step into its political power. Listen and find out wherever you get your podcasts Beginning April sixteen,