Dominic Williams ∞
Zurich, Switzerland
Founder, President & Chief Scientist at DFINITY | Internet Computer @DFINITY
Summary
Follow me at https://twitter.com/dominic_w. I am an engineering entrepreneur, and distributed computing/crypto theoretician. I led the creation of the Internet Computer network (see internetcomputer.org) and founded DFINITY. It was the first such project to receive funding from Andreessen Horowitz, before the a16z crypto funds were created. I currently live in Zurich where our HQ is based. Before blockchain... I founded an MMO/social network directed at 8-12 yrs boys that grew to almost 3M user accounts and was the fastest growing kids game in Europe for a while, and created various distributed computing technologies supporting its operation at scale. The company raised venture funding at ~1M users and I moved to Palo Alto staying there 10 years. Before that/2010... Entrepreneur & creator of various tech products in UK.
Founder, President & Chief Scientist
DFINITY
1 Jan 2015 - Present
11yrs 7mos
Zurich, SF and Palo Alto
At work on the Internet Computer. Question: can a public network run software that's unstoppable, tamperproof and autonomous, providing a decentralized and superior alternative to traditional backend IT, extending the public internet, so that as well as connecting us all, it also provides a platform upon which the world can build its future systems and services? Answer: Hell yeah! We work on the most sophisticated network protocol ever devised: ICP. https://internetcomputer.org https://dfinity.org
President & CTO
String Labs, Inc
1 Jun 2015 - 28 Feb 2018
2yrs 8mos
Palo Alto, California
String Labs is a boutique incubator of open protocol and next generation crypto projects that is venture-backed. In the summer of 2016, String Labs began incubating the DFINITY project, generating returns for investors measured in orders of magnitude. String Labs has also worked on other crypto projects, including "mirror assets", which aimed to democratize access to investable assets around the world. Investors include Amino Capital, FBS Capital, Zhen Fund and IDG Capital Partners – reflecting how early investment in our field came from China. My cofounder Lei Ding was Shanghainese, and a fellow Silicon Valley tech émigré.
Smartphones, domain names and digital assets...
School of Life
1 Jan 1999 - 31 May 2016
17yrs 4mos
While I researched cryptography and distributed consensus techniques 2013-2015, I occupied myself trading digital assets. Before crypto, adventures included being the previous owner of the domain name "archives.com", which became the home to a billion dollar business, and long ago in the very early days of the mobile internet, I brokered the UK's largest sale of smartphones to Cantor Fitzgerald (if you're wondering, it was the XDA, running Microsoft Windows CE... how things change!!)
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