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Tech executive Bob Lee led an underground life

62 points by joering2 3y ago

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metadat 3y ago
It's paywalled and neither archive.today or archive.org is working for this one. Bummer. Edit: I scoured the corners of the tubes to produce this for you~ https://archive.today/WICdT https://archive.today/WICdT Edit 2: @asah, 100% agree, it was a letdown. Yet I always wanna turn over the stone.. >..<
- reducesuffering 3y ago
  Bypass Paywalls Firefox Extension works for it
- asah 3y ago
  Missing nothing: it's a junky article of random facts adding up to nothing. The supposed understand life is pretty vanilla for silicon valley "better living through chemistry."
  - asah 3y ago
    sorry: s/understand/underground/
- greenyoda 3y ago
  That link doesn't work for me, but this one does: https://archive.ph/IBtZ7 https://archive.ph/IBtZ7
  - metadat 3y ago
    Crazy, they seem to have deleted it. Thanks. Still a trash article.
esprehn 3y ago
This article is paywalled, but lots of coverage around the web on different sites: https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+lee+lifestyle https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+lee+lifestyle
echelon 3y ago
Bob's personal life shouldn't matter. He was a good guy, didn't hurt anyone, and was senselessly murdered in cold blood.
- deleted 3y ago
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- Zetice 3y ago
  Yeah gotta wonder who benefits from dragging this man's name through the mud posthumously like this...
- lostdog 3y ago
  The real theme of the article was how social, outgoing, and successful this guy was, and how much this guy was liked by his friends and "friends." For some reason the WSJ wants to paint it with a patina of DRUGS.
- joering2 3y ago
  I thought twice before submitting this, but I believe the article is an interesting one. To me story of Mr. Lee and Mr. Hsieh are a lifetime lessons on how not to allow fame and fortune to drag me down one-way street to the point of fatal self-destruction. I think I personally learnt from their stories and I think this article benefits HN society.
  - throwaway5959 3y ago
    Self-destruction? The guy was murdered by an upset brother. How is that self-destruction?
- NN88 3y ago
  blame the very high strung reactionaries in the Bay Area who thought this was a random crime for the need for the WSJ to air out this fetid scene
- shippintoboston 3y ago
  Well he had an affair with a married woman so he hurt at least one person
karaterobot 3y ago
This article heavily implies a lot of stuff it does not provide evidence for. Having recreational drugs in your system does not make you a member of an elite Hellfire Club of debauched aristocrats. He may have done all that stuff, I don't know. I'm just saying the level of "we're not saying he was one of those guys at the Eyes Wide Shut orgy, but we're not not saying that either" in this article is troublingly high.
- joering2 3y ago
  "Hellfire Club of debauched aristocrats" Where did you read that??
  - karaterobot 3y ago
    It wasn't a quote. But, see the first sentence of the linked article for what I'm talking about.
- NN88 3y ago
  Theres more circumstantial evidence of Epstein blackmailing powerful people with sex parties than this article. What are you talking about?
  - karaterobot 3y ago
    I would like to ask you the same question.
462436347 3y ago
https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-attended-underground-sex-drug-parties-with-sister-of-his-alleged-killer/ https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-atten... >Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and sister of Nima Momeni. >People familiar with the group said Lee and Khazar, 37, were sleeping together, and many feared he’d fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people. >Lee was allegedly confronted by Nima about the hard-partying and his sister’s involvement in an argument erupting in the early hours of April 4 when Lee was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said. "The Lifestyle" refers to the scene to which he belonged, not the man himself, btw (at least according to another article).
johntiger1 3y ago
Can't upvote this enough, thanks for bringing this to HN

62 points by joering2 3y ago

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It's paywalled and neither archive.today or archive.org is working for this one. Bummer. Edit: I scoured the corners of the tubes to produce this for you~ https://archive.today/WICdT https://archive.today/WICdT Edit 2: @asah, 100% agree, it was a letdown. Yet I always wanna turn over the stone.. >..<

reducesuffering 3y ago
Bypass Paywalls Firefox Extension works for it
asah 3y ago
Missing nothing: it's a junky article of random facts adding up to nothing. The supposed understand life is pretty vanilla for silicon valley "better living through chemistry."
- asah 3y ago
  sorry: s/understand/underground/
greenyoda 3y ago
That link doesn't work for me, but this one does: https://archive.ph/IBtZ7 https://archive.ph/IBtZ7
- metadat 3y ago
  Crazy, they seem to have deleted it. Thanks. Still a trash article.

esprehn 3y ago

This article is paywalled, but lots of coverage around the web on different sites: https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+lee+lifestyle https://www.google.com/search?q=bob+lee+lifestyle

echelon 3y ago

Bob's personal life shouldn't matter. He was a good guy, didn't hurt anyone, and was senselessly murdered in cold blood.

deleted 3y ago
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Zetice 3y ago
Yeah gotta wonder who benefits from dragging this man's name through the mud posthumously like this...
lostdog 3y ago
The real theme of the article was how social, outgoing, and successful this guy was, and how much this guy was liked by his friends and "friends." For some reason the WSJ wants to paint it with a patina of DRUGS.
joering2 3y ago
I thought twice before submitting this, but I believe the article is an interesting one. To me story of Mr. Lee and Mr. Hsieh are a lifetime lessons on how not to allow fame and fortune to drag me down one-way street to the point of fatal self-destruction. I think I personally learnt from their stories and I think this article benefits HN society.
- throwaway5959 3y ago
  Self-destruction? The guy was murdered by an upset brother. How is that self-destruction?
NN88 3y ago
blame the very high strung reactionaries in the Bay Area who thought this was a random crime for the need for the WSJ to air out this fetid scene
shippintoboston 3y ago
Well he had an affair with a married woman so he hurt at least one person

karaterobot 3y ago

This article heavily implies a lot of stuff it does not provide evidence for. Having recreational drugs in your system does not make you a member of an elite Hellfire Club of debauched aristocrats. He may have done all that stuff, I don't know. I'm just saying the level of "we're not saying he was one of those guys at the Eyes Wide Shut orgy, but we're not not saying that either" in this article is troublingly high.

joering2 3y ago
"Hellfire Club of debauched aristocrats" Where did you read that??
- karaterobot 3y ago
  It wasn't a quote. But, see the first sentence of the linked article for what I'm talking about.
NN88 3y ago
Theres more circumstantial evidence of Epstein blackmailing powerful people with sex parties than this article. What are you talking about?
- karaterobot 3y ago
  I would like to ask you the same question.

462436347 3y ago

https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-attended-underground-sex-drug-parties-with-sister-of-his-alleged-killer/ https://nypost.com/2023/05/14/cash-app-founder-bob-lee-atten... >Known in wealthy circles as “The Lifestyle,” Lee, 43,a father of two, allegedly enjoyed the city’s underground party scene, as did Khazar Momeni, wife of a prominent plastic surgeon and sister of Nima Momeni. >People familiar with the group said Lee and Khazar, 37, were sleeping together, and many feared he’d fallen into a dangerous lifestyle, surrounding himself with the wrong group of people. >Lee was allegedly confronted by Nima about the hard-partying and his sister’s involvement in an argument erupting in the early hours of April 4 when Lee was stabbed multiple times, prosecutors said. "The Lifestyle" refers to the scene to which he belonged, not the man himself, btw (at least according to another article).

johntiger1 3y ago

Can't upvote this enough, thanks for bringing this to HN