So the co-founder of the payment app Square Tristan O’Tierney, has just passed away at age 35(that so sad, he’s still so young). It was reported that he died of addiction-related causes last weekend in a florida hospital.
He left the company(Square) in 2013, eight years after coming to the Bay Area, where he also worked as a software engineer at Yahoo for nearly two years and worked briefly at Apple, VMware and Tapulous. According to his linkedln profile he has been working as a freelance photographer on recent years.
He was also the director of Mobile at a short-lived San Francisco-based company, Voteraide, that aimed to empower voters by enabling them to interact with candidates and elected officials as verified voters.
O’Tierney studied computer science at the Rochester Institute of Technology, but had a vast variety of interests. But he will surely be remembered, Adieiu bro.
