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This is Joshua Goldbard, Founder of MobileCoin I had the distinct pleasure of working with Bob daily for the last few years. Bob was an incredible human being who I will miss every day. He was my friend and someone who drank deeply from the cup of life. He had a way of seeing the world that was enchanting. He was a visionary in so many ways. Bob led product for our team for years but that's probably the least interes…
Sounds like such a huge loss. Does anyone know where the moniker 'crazybob' originated from?
He was incredibly hard working, in the early days of Square he owned the engineering hiring process and was on the interview panel for every engineer up through the company having hundreds of engineers. It was just an amazing amount of work he put into this. When there weren't enough hours in the day, he started delegating, but the whole engineering culture was just incredibly shaped by his hard work.
In spite of being very accomplished as an engineer, he was humble and knew what he didn't know. I worked in infrastructure and Bob was much more of a mobile guy. He deferred to our expertise in the areas where he wasn't an expert.
Some years after we'd both left Square I was interviewing for at various companies. I noticed a shared connection at one company. I asked Bob for any background, and unprompted he sent a glowing recommendation to that company.
And then CashApp. That started as a hack week project led by Bob. It was all email based, I remember how excited he and Jack were about it. It was cool, and IIRC, we actually launched the email only version of it before Square Cash and then CashApp evolved into what it is today.
My understanding is that Bob was a single parent. If you come across any information about a GoFundMe for Bob’s child or similar during your research for this obituary, would you mind reporting back? Email in profile if you’d prefer not to comment with that info. Thank you.
Are you planning on donating money to a child of the person who was the head of a company that made 10 billion USD in revenue and almost 3 billion USD in profit last year? https://www.businessofapps.com/data/cash-app-statistics/
We really need to organize people and do something. We all live in this city and we've all tolerated all this too long. To throw your hands up in the air and say it's "hopeless" doesn't help. At a certain point our collective apathy makes this situation our fault.
Let's *hack* a solution! Let's disrupt this city! Let's solve this situation our way! Let Bob not have died in vain!
His story about becoming the Code Red Vigilante (writing a program to help stop the spread of the Code Red worm) is a fun flash back to the early 2000s hacking scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ElYs3hXSkI
bruh the screen savers is such a blast from the past and peak late 90s/early 00s tech. It's crazy to think Martin Sargent co-hosted with Digg's co-founder Kevin Rose quite a bit on that show.
My understanding is that Bob was a single parent. If you come across any information about a GoFundMe for Bob’s child or similar during your research for this obituary, would you mind reporting back? Email in profile if you’d prefer not to comment with that info. Thank you.
This is senseless and a huge loss. Bob was a great guy. I met him briefly when he worked at Google. He was just starting to work on Guice and I was skeptical of dependency injection and we talked about it for an hour. I went home and did a heads down and Guice was a major impact on my coding for the next ten years. I bumped into "Crazy Bob"a few more times and just an insanely nice guy. He was also murdered at Main a…