# Four companies control 81% of a trillion-dollar-by-2025 market — the "Amazon tax"

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:12 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AE257OCMA&t=552s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-06-09-four-companies-control-81-of-a-trillion-dollar-by-6cf4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Four companies control 81% of a trillion-dollar-by-2025 market — the "Amazon tax"," Future of Web 3 and the Battle for Data Sovereignty with Greg Osuri, CEO of Akash Networks (Orchid Labs), 9 Jun 2021, 00:09:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2AE257OCMA&t=552s

## Quote — verbatim

> Right now about 81 percent of market share is controlled by four companies, and it is about to be a trillion dollar market by 2025. It is a massive market... cloud... is a fabric for today's society... everyone pays an Amazon tax, an invisible tax.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Argument for why matching idle supply with demand is "a dumb problem to correct" — with cost reduction as the natural economic result.