# Community is Akash's competitive moat

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-10-09
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri: Redefining Success Against All Odds \| BTC Ep.7 (Michael Huynh)
- **Watch at:** 00:55:18 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7J8rBI2yk&t=3318s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2023-10-09-community-is-akash-s-competitive-moat-svs4/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Community is Akash's competitive moat," Greg Osuri: Redefining Success Against All Odds \| BTC Ep.7 (Michael Huynh), 9 Oct 2023, 00:55:18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7J8rBI2yk&t=3318s

## Quote — verbatim

> I keep saying community is the competitive moat for Akash. It's one thing that no one else has — no big cloud provider has a large, open community.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Closing point: Amazon can't scale the way an open community can; his recurring argument for why open-source networks outlast corporate clouds.