Don't incentivize before product-market fit
Akash Weekly - September 7th 2022 (Akash Network)
“It’s very important to stay focused on achieving a strong product market fit before incentivizing adoption, because if you incentivize pre-product market fit, the data you’re going to get back is ruined… your incentives will eventually die, and once that happens you’re not going to be able to be in a position to sustain this growth.” — 00:52:27
Context: Closing remarks contrasting Akash’s organic growth (Cloudmos, seven protocol clients) with Filecoin’s Filecoin+ program, where he claims providers pay people to store data due to perverse incentives.