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William Wolf is the former Partner at Polychain Capital. Previously, he was responsible for Payment-related Development at Airbnb as a Founding Team Member at Tilt.com, as a Technical Director; as a Senior Software Developer at Siteworx, managing Technical Decisions, Implementation, Resource Cooperation and Strategy for each Project; at Rackspace to establish Webmail.us Email Hosting Platform. He has over a decade of experience building high-quality products and extensive experience in Distributed Systems and Team Management.
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