The invisible 50% cloud tax
"#3 - Akash Network with Greg Osuri" (Weapons of Mass Adoption)
“Anderson Horowitz wrote a very thorough, thoughtful research piece… they pointed out over 50% of the margins that these online services get goes to a cloud provider. Like, if you use Dropbox or Asana or Netflix, 50% of the payment on the profits are going to go into the cloud providers. So, there’s an invisible tax we pay like it or not.” — 00:14:24
Context: Citing a16z’s “The Cost of Cloud” piece while explaining supercloud economics and BigQuery/Aurora lock-in.