# Decentralization means removing systemic failure risk

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-03-02
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Network (AKT) Explained: Everything You Need To Know Before Investing by Founder Greg Osuri (Founder School)
- **Watch at:** 00:12:28 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328BxcY4ec4&t=748s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2025-03-02-decentralization-means-removing-systemic-failure-r-t73w/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralization means removing systemic failure risk," Akash Network (AKT) Explained: Everything You Need To Know Before Investing by Founder Greg Osuri (Founder School), 2 Mar 2025, 00:12:28. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=328BxcY4ec4&t=748s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's really about removing the risk of a system failure — removing systemic failure risk. Today you have centralized systems like Amazon and Google of the world: if the company collapses, the product exits, 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 decentralization: consensus, governance-attack economics, company influence (citing Terra), and — the deepest layer — whether development survives the founding lab, which motivated the radically-open reorganization.