# Decentralization means removing systemic failure risk

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-02-25
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=735s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-02-25-decentralization-means-removing-systemic-failure-r-zbas/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization means removing systemic failure risk," Akash Network Live with Greg Osuri: Akash's progress in 2023, open community development, and more (Akash Network), 25 Feb 2023, 00:12:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=735s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's really about removing the risk of a system failure — removing systemic failure risk... Today you have centralized systems like Amazons and Googles of the world: if the company collapses, the product \[dies\], no matter how important it is to you or to the society. If the company dies, \[the\] product \[dies\].

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His onion model of protocol attack vectors — consensus, governance economics, company influence (citing Terra), and lab dependence — which motivated the radically-open reorganization; the bracketed words are garbled in the auto-captions ([00:12:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-Oara8i78&t=778s)).