Cash App founder Bob Lee's murder rocked Silicon Valley, but for his loved ones, it was personal
Bob Lee, who founded Cash App and was an executive at Square and Mobile Coin, was stabbed three times with a paring knife in San Francisco.
The daughter of Bob Lee, the tech executive whose fatal stabbing nearly two years ago sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and stoked debate about violent crime in San Francisco, said she felt her “stomach drop” during the dramatic end to the trial of her father’s accused killer.
After seven days of deliberations, a jury in December acquitted tech consultant Nima Momeni of first-degree murder in Lee’s April 4, 2023, killing.
“I felt a ringing in my ear,” Scout Lee, 16, told “Dateline” in her first interview about her father’s death and the murder trial. “I just felt so overwhelmed.”
“I grabbed onto my mom’s hand and squeezed it and cried,” she added.
Scout — who described herself as her father’s “mini me” — said she felt some relief when, moments after the acquittal was announced, Momeni was convicted of the lesser crime of second-degree murder.
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