# Open systems go far, closed systems go fast

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-28
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Building the Super Cloud of GPUs with Akash Founder Greg Osuri \| EP \#102 (Frictionless Podcast by Logan Jastremski)
- **Watch at:** 00:24:36 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrfHDg30-M&t=1476s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-09-28-open-systems-go-far-closed-systems-go-fast-7top/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Open systems go far, closed systems go fast," Building the Super Cloud of GPUs with Akash Founder Greg Osuri \| EP \#102 (Frictionless Podcast by Logan Jastremski), 28 Sept 2023, 00:24:36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrfHDg30-M&t=1476s

## Quote — verbatim

> Decentralizing and open systems can go far, whereas centralizing closed systems can go fast... that's why I believe open and decentral systems will reach \[places\] where centralized systems just cannot.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His recurring coordination-cost argument for why the demand-supply connection for idle GPUs should be a decentralized marketplace.