# Companies seek monopoly; networks are markets

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-02-08
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3)
- **Watch at:** 00:22:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=1346s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2021-02-08-companies-seek-monopoly-networks-are-markets-7mqx/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Companies seek monopoly; networks are markets," The cloud, open source and flash loans with Greg Osuri (Citizen Web3), 8 Feb 2021, 00:22:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3tZLp2CNgI&t=1346s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

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."