Sam Williams is an entrepreneur and the cofounder and CEO of Arweave, an archive of human knowledge and experience. The entrepreneur has experience designing, implementing, and delivering software. Williams also has experience in decentralized system design and implementation and has delivered a variety of projects, including a distributed operating system. Williams served as a mentor at Techstars, a voting member at LAG foundation, and a technical advisor at Minespider. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Nottingham and was a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Kent.
Arweave held an initial coin offering a few months after participating in the Techstars program in 2021. In an interview with Coin Insider, Williams explained that Technstars assisted in making the $8.7 million in their fundraiser:
“Going through the Techstars programme definitely helped us with the raise – they helped us reach the right kind of people. We had all this technology, but we knew no one at all in the community. We were a bunch of PhD students in some town in the UK, isolated from the community, and by the end of the programme, we knew a good percentage of the important people in the space, which was extremely helpful.”
