# Marketplaces should be decentralized, companies need not be

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-18
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Most Successful Crypto Miner Failure, Akash Super Mini - Greg Osuri Interview CEO of Overclock Labs (Action Crypto)
- **Watch at:** 00:15:06 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJ4-Q27CRM&t=906s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-02-18-marketplaces-should-be-decentralized-companies-nee-vu4f/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Marketplaces should be decentralized, companies need not be," Most Successful Crypto Miner Failure, Akash Super Mini - Greg Osuri Interview CEO of Overclock Labs (Action Crypto), 18 Feb 2023, 00:15:06. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwJ4-Q27CRM&t=906s

## Quote — verbatim

> Any marketplace should be decentralized. Any value exchange I believe should be decentralized, because marketplaces optimize for perfect competition.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Asked where the line between centralization and decentralization should be drawn; he adds "the companies I don't believe should be all decentralized because without those companies you don't have the markets" ([00:16:30]).