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		danso on Dec 9, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ex-Napster exec fatally struck by sheriff's patrol... Thought of a couple recent tragic tech star fatalities: - Former Amazon CFO Joy Covey was killed by a car while bicycling in September: http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/09/19/joy-covey-... - Oculus Rift co-founder Andrew Reisse killed in August in the crosswalk during a police chase. Not on a bike, and not in normal traffic conditions, but tragic nonetheless: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/06/02/oculus-rif...

mikeyouse on Dec 9, 2013 [–]

I don't know about tech 'star', but there was a pretty high profile employee at GroupOn killed a few months ago in Chicago traffic;

- http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/20566657-418/groupon-hono...

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