# 50% utilization is the marketplace sweet spot

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-12-19
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets)
- **Watch at:** 00:17:21 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwpAQjvSxRE&t=1041s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-12-19-50-utilization-is-the-marketplace-sweet-spot-p3na/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "50% utilization is the marketplace sweet spot," Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets), 19 Dec 2023, 00:17:21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwpAQjvSxRE&t=1041s

## Quote — verbatim

> I think 50% is an ideal sweet spot in terms of utilization rate, wherein the suppliers have enough confidence that they will be able to clear the inventory... tenants have enough confidence that they'll be able to find compute to scale. That's the sweet spot — we want to keep the network at 50% and scale accordingly.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Explaining supply-first marketplace bootstrapping after Foundry's GPUs appeared organically; GPU utilization was ~45% lifetime, ~60% that day.