"Burgers and fries" cloud lock-in economics
Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show)
“Cloud provides compute, raw compute, bandwidth, memory, CPU, whatnot, and storage. On top of that, they provide value-add services. And the revenue model is basically burgers and fries. You got to sell burgers and not sell fries. But you make money on fries.” — 00:25:43
Context: One of his longest-running recurring arguments (repeated for years afterward): clouds lose money on raw compute and lock customers in via ~200 value-added services.