# Akash frees the cloud like the internet was freed from AOL

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-09-11
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network’s (CRYPTO:AKT) ($AKT) interview with Mr. Greg Osuri CEO. (New to The Street TV)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:20 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXA2hC9dPw&t=440s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-09-11-akash-frees-the-cloud-like-the-internet-was-freed-vyi5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash frees the cloud like the internet was freed from AOL," Akash Network’s (CRYPTO:AKT) ($AKT) interview with Mr. Greg Osuri CEO. (New to The Street TV), 11 Sept 2021, 00:07:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXA2hC9dPw&t=440s

## Quote — verbatim

> Permissionless systems are generally known to scale at a global scale — internet being a big example. When internet was broken from the jails of AOL, we really saw the penetration that it has today, and similarly Akash is doing that to cloud computing.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After noting ~a billion people lack credit cards to access hyperscaler clouds, including a kid in Africa whose first cloud experience was Akash.