# Ecosystem partners will replace the core team as the growth engine

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-22
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 21st 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:30:07 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SjcSAQKY7g&t=1807s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-22-ecosystem-partners-will-replace-the-core-team-as-t-jorx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Ecosystem partners will replace the core team as the growth engine," Akash Weekly - September 21st 2022 (Akash Network), 22 Sept 2022, 00:30:07. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SjcSAQKY7g&t=1807s

## Quote — verbatim

> Platform clients that, you know, will eventually replace the Akash core team as the primary contributors to growth — and it's already starting to happen. So Spheron is focusing on bringing on ecosystems like Polygon, countries like Africa, onto the Akash ecosystem... this level of organic involvement is exactly what we want to see, and we're going to continue seeing that over the next few months and few years.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His model for decentralized network growth: the core team builds features while partners (Spheron, Cloudmos, Praetor) expand reach organically.