DeFi and machine learning first, enterprise later (the S3 playbook)
"The Akashian Challenge Livestream: Phase 3 Week 1" (Akash Network)
“Amazon Web Services, the behemoth, started off offering one product and that is archival storage — S3… what they had is an incredibly valuable product that nobody was building, and a market for it. Our product is an unstoppable low cost high quality cloud that nobody is building, and we’re serving an underserved market which is the DeFi and machine learning.” — 01:07:44
Context: Asked about enterprise compliance (GDPR/ISO); he says compliance comes “eventually,” but ML users switch immediately for 50% cloud savings — an early (Dec 2020) bet on ML as Akash’s core demand.