# Incentives should come after product-market fit, or supply outstrips demand

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-28
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - July 27th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iom_BfWzk40&t=558s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-07-28-incentives-should-come-after-product-market-fit-or-oukv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Incentives should come after product-market fit, or supply outstrips demand," Akash Weekly - July 27th 2022 (Akash Network), 28 Jul 2022, 00:09:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iom_BfWzk40&t=558s

## Quote — verbatim

> Tokens don't last forever and tokens usually need a cap, or else you end up in a Terra-like situation... it's really good to see strong product market fit signaling before the incentives kick in, because that'll allow us to grow faster and grow quickly.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Contrasting Akash's 29% memory utilization with Filecoin's 0.07% to argue over-incentivizing node supply pre-PMF leaves nothing to incentivize demand later; a recurring Akash tokenomics thesis.