# Incentivizing pre-product-market-fit ruins the data

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2022-09-26
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Analysis - Incentives/Product Market Fit (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:00:42 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfTiRrH8WU&t=42s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-09-26-incentivizing-pre-product-market-fit-ruins-the-dat-3to4/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Incentivizing pre-product-market-fit ruins the data," Akash Analysis - Incentives/Product Market Fit (Akash Network), 26 Sept 2022, 00:00:42. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwfTiRrH8WU&t=42s

## Quote — verbatim

> You're seeing quite a lot of platforms today that incentivize early behaviors before product market fit. Product market fit is a long and slow road — it's really something that has no shortcuts... 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 sustain growth.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Contrarian thesis against the standard web3 token-incentive playbook; explains why Akash withheld provider/tenant incentives. **Speaker:** uncredited clip; likely Greg.