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“Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature,” a former colleague of Bob Lee said.

Bob Lee, Cash App founder and executive at cryptocurrency firm MobileCoin, is dead after a "horrific" act in San Francisco on Tuesday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said on Wednesday.

Police responded to a report of a stabbing early Tuesday, around 2:35 a.m., and found a 43-year-old man suffering from stab wounds, a San Francisco Police Department report said.

The report did not name the victim, but the details matched Lee, who was 43 years old.

Officers called for medics, who transported the victim to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, the police report said, adding that the victim ultimately died from the injuries.

"We do not tolerate these horrific acts of violence in San Francisco," Jenkins said.

London Breed, the mayor of San Francisco, said in a statement to ABC News that Lee's death marks a "horrible tragedy."

"My sympathies go out to his family and friends," Breed said. "The police are actively investigating what happened and will share details as soon as they can."

Lee served as the first chief technology officer at Square, a digital payment company founded by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.

"Bob was a dynamo, a force of nature," Joshua Goldbard, the CEO of MobileCoin, told ABC News in a statement.

Bob Lee, Cash App founder and former Square executive,

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"He was made for the world that is being born right now, he was a child of dreams, and whatever he imagined, no matter how crazy, he made real," Goldbard added.

During the 2000s, Lee worked at Google, where he helped develop Android.

Cash App and the San Francisco Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Lee is survived by his wife, Krista, and their two children.

"Bob's real resume is the hearts and minds he touched in his time on earth," Goldbard said. "Bob's legacy is the feeling that you can make a difference if you try, and of course his amazing children."

ABC News' Annie Pong contributed reporting.

PHOTO: In this photo illustration a Cash App logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen on a desk next to a Macbook in Athens, Greece, Oct. 4, 2022.

In this photo illustration a Cash App logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen on a desk next to a Macbook in Athens, Greece, Oct. 4, 2022.

Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via AP, FILE

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