# Photon's mandate: cut cloud cost to 1/5–1/2

- **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:** 00:15:17 — 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-photon-s-mandate-cut-cloud-cost-to-1-5-1-2-nnfq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Photon's mandate: cut cloud cost to 1/5–1/2," Cloud Mobility with Legendary Developer Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Overclock Labs (The Silicon Valley Insider Show), 2 Mar 2018, 00:15:17. https://omny.fm/shows/the-silicon-valley-insider-show/sv-insider-3-2-18-podcast

## Quote — verbatim

> We're calling it Photon, right, for now, but Photon's mandate is to solve the cost of cloud computing anywhere from one-fifth to one-half.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Pre-announcement of the network that became Akash — "we're going to announce this thing basically in a week or two," first prototype March 19, 2018, launch targeted for mid-June 2018.