# 300-500 providers would out-distribute Amazon

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-07-01
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Ask Akash: Why not focus on Web 2 adoption for Akash? (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:03:34 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEJzxGmFj4&t=214s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-07-01-300-500-providers-would-out-distribute-amazon-6ard/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "300-500 providers would out-distribute Amazon," Ask Akash: Why not focus on Web 2 adoption for Akash? (Akash Network), 1 Jul 2022, 00:03:34. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSEJzxGmFj4&t=214s

## Quote — verbatim

> Once providers are profitable, that is something that can be used to attract other providers, because there's actual money to be made here... that will enable provider incentives, that'll massively grow \[the\] provider \[base\]. Once we have 300 to 500 providers, that is significantly higher geo-presence than, let's say, an Amazon.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

July 2022 growth thesis: provider profitability compounds into distribution that hyperscalers can't match.