# "Burgers and fries" cloud lock-in economics

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2018-03-02
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:43 — https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-03-02-burgers-and-fries-cloud-lock-in-economics-nnfq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, ""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), 2 Mar 2018, 00:25:43. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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.