Companies seek monopoly; networks are markets
The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3)
“There’s a fundamental difference between a company and a market. The mandate for a company is to become a monopoly. The mandate for a market is to have perfect competition, to have multiple providers. So blockchain networks are not companies. Blockchain networks are markets.” — 00:22:26
Context: Structural argument for why Akash-the-network can stay user-aligned where Amazon-the-company cannot; hosts summarize it as “you can fork the code, but you can’t fork the network.”