The invisible cloud tax
RNDR, Supercloud, 1.5T AI Market Cap – Interview with Greg Osuri about Akash (Design DAO)
“Andreessen Horowitz wrote a very thorough, thoughtful research piece where they estimated, backed by data — they pointed out over 50 percent of the margins that these online services get goes to a cloud [provider]. If you use Dropbox or Asana or Netflix, 50% of… the profits are going to go into the cloud providers. So there’s an invisible tax we pay, like it or not.” — 00:14:23
Context: Explaining cloud lock-in (BigQuery, Aurora) as the motivation for a homogeneous supercloud interface over heterogeneous providers.