> never managed to ship anything after getting multiple multi-million-dollar golden showers.
It's more then just linking hard-disks. It is really hard to build the incentives and market part. Read for instance about our operational prototype from 2014, "Towards a Peer-to-Peer Bandwidth Marketplace", https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-45249-9_...
So ship the first thing then do the second thing. You get two things from this. First, your storage system gets battle tested. Second, you get the credibility of joining the ranks of those who can actually ship quality software.
It's more then just linking hard-disks. It is really hard to build the incentives and market part. Read for instance about our operational prototype from 2014, "Towards a Peer-to-Peer Bandwidth Marketplace", https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-45249-9_...