Sam Williams is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Arweave. He is specialized in decentralization, cryptocurrency, Erlang and operating systems.

Sam was born in Berlin, Germany. He is a business visionary, decentralization fan and co-founder of Arweave. Sam has been programming since a very early age, he is known for creating high quality designs with a focus on user experience. When not hacking Erlang, Sam can be found climbing mountains and discussing geopolitics.

Sam went to University of Nottingham and graduated with a first class honour in Computer science between 2011 to 2014.

He also attended University of Kent for his PHD degree in 2014.

He started his career as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Kent, Canterbury United Kingdom between sept 2014 to May 2017.

In May 2017, he co-founded the Minimum Spanning Technologies as well as Arweave. A novel data storage blockchain protocol enabling a permanent serverless web. He is currently the CEO of Arweave.

In addition to that, he is also a mentor at Techstars, a global platform for investment and innovation. Founded in 2006 .

His net worth is currently unavailable as of 2020.

He has over 800 followers on his Twitter handle as of 2020.