Go-to-Market in Web3: New Mindsets, Tactics, Metrics - a16z crypto

While Web2 businesses’ GTM strategies start with the product (i.e. come for the tool), Web3 companies should have more of a bottom-up approach and design the tokenomics to reach and attract an engaged community. That’s what investors would want to see.

In Web2, the primary GTM stakeholder is the customer. But in Web3, the alignment of incentives through stakeholder primacy means that the entire community of contributors within a network are turned into stakeholders - driving the need for new distribution strategies.