# Oligopolies stifle innovation — and cloud is becoming one

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-02-08
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:06:31 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=391s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-02-08-oligopolies-stifle-innovation-and-cloud-is-becomin-6ek3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Oligopolies stifle innovation — and cloud is becoming one," The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3), 8 Feb 2021, 00:06:31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=391s

## Quote — verbatim

> The structural issues with oligopolies are oligopolies tend to stifle innovation... It's not like people stop flying. It's just people stop innovating in flight. It's not like people stop making phone calls, it's just people stop innovating in telecom... And cloud is becoming one.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Airlines/telco analogy for what happens when moats concentrate; ties into his claim that open-source companies can no longer get funded because Amazon white-labels their software.