Last Night in San Francisco, Scott Alan Lucas
Last Night in San Francisco, Scott Alan Lucas
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Last Night in San Francisco
Tech's Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee

Author: Scott Alan Lucas

Narrator: Robb Moreira

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/19/2025


Synopsis

FOR FANS OF GOING INFINITE AND SUPER PUMPED: Sex and drugs, parties and violence, genius coders and VC tycoons—welcome to the rip-roaring world of the American tech industry
The full story of an industry, a city, and two men—one who got everything he ever wanted, one who never got what he thought he deserved—and what happened the night it all came apart.
Like his many peers in the tech industry who had poured into San Francisco over the last two decades, Bob Lee was remaking the world, building the most familiar parts of our digital lives, a lead innovator at one start-up after another, such as Google, Android, Square, and CashApp.
When Lee was found stabbed to death one night on the streets of San Francisco, the city's many critics knew exactly what it meant. Just like they had been saying, the city was violent, dangerous, and out-of-control. San Francisco was so bent on creating a liberal utopia that it was failing at its most basic tasks—to keep its citizens safe.
It’s a familiar story—familiar and wrong. Bob Lee was a man without limits, and he had a recklessness that led to his triumphs as well as his downfall.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on May 12, 2025

Book Review: Last Night in San Francisco: Tech’s Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee by Scott Alan Lucas Scott Alan Lucas’s Last Night in San Francisco is a gripping and incisive work that blends true crime with cultural critique, examining the shocking murder of tech executive Bob Lee against th......more

Goodreads review by Ula on July 12, 2025

You could say that biographies of tech founders have recently become a genre of their own. I admit that I am a fan, partly because Big Tech plays such a huge role in our lives and partly because these people are usually rather unconventional. Bob Lee was undoubtedly such a character, although he bec......more