# Four companies control 80% of a market headed to $1 trillion

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-10-12
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Blockchain & Cloud Computing - Akash Network W/ Greg Osuri (Arcane Bear)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:06 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-UpAZx-KM&t=426s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-10-12-four-companies-control-80-of-a-market-headed-to-1-kjw3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Four companies control 80% of a market headed to $1 trillion," Blockchain & Cloud Computing - Akash Network W/ Greg Osuri (Arcane Bear), 12 Oct 2021, 00:07:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO-UpAZx-KM&t=426s

## Quote — verbatim

> Four companies essentially control 80 percent of the marketplace, and in the process they became rent seekers... an industry today is about 390 billion dollars and which is projected to be a trillion dollars very soon — majority of that is controlled by four companies.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His web 2.0 critique: over-capitalization made clouds "the center fabric of our society" run by rent-seeking oligopolists ("MAGA": Microsoft, Alibaba, Google, Amazon).