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“When we launched our latest testnet we had 3,800 or so deployments in two weeks… about 80 applications that people shared… and about 480 or so monthly active developers right now on the testnet, which is phenomenal — for comparison, Polkadot has about 420 monthly active developers.” — Greg Osuri, 00:09:53

“When we launched our latest testnet we had 3,800 or so deployments in two weeks… about 80 applications that people shared… and about 480 or so monthly active developers right now on the testnet, which is phenomenal — for comparison, Polkadot has about 420 monthly active developers.” — Greg Osuri, 00:09:56

“This is the cost of liberty, right? I fundamentally believe censorship resistance and privacy are the foundational pillars for a liberal society.” — Greg Osuri, 00:28:35

“Our first biggest exclusive provider, and we’re launching mainnet number two, is Equinix… Equinix is the largest data center provider in the world… they have 100 regions, so they’re pretty well distributed… and their biggest customer I believe is Amazon.” — Greg Osuri, 00:19:59

“A big thing today in the cloud — and a lot of the open source community hates this — is because cloud is actually stifling open source innovation by stealing their business model.” — Greg Osuri, 00:41:20

“I’m genuinely excited… with everything that’s happening with censorship… Akash is primed to take off. There’s no other possible solution — solving for censorship begins with solving for the foundational element, which is the cloud… we have all the compute capacity, we have over 80 applications, we have over 480 users on our testnet.” — Greg Osuri, 01:14:02

“And I fell in love with it and dropped everything I was doing. And I was like, yeah, Kubernetes is going to be the future. This was in 2014. And I built a company around taking Kubernetes to market in 2015. I started Overclock Labs.” — Greg Osuri, 00:38:30

“Our biggest big enterprise that we’ll be announcing very soon, probably next week, is Equinix — I mean, it’s an open secret at this point. So Equinix is the largest data center network in the world…” — Greg Osuri, 00:38:06

“We are currently aiming for March 8th, 2021, for the mainnet to be ready and accessible… if all goes well, March 8th is what we’re looking at for Mainnet 2.” — Greg Osuri, 00:21:17

“I think Ethereum is a proof of concept more than a real, scalable architecture, and it’s obvious with the gas fees that we are paying. The shared fee model — all that is just not scalable.” — Greg Osuri, 00:27:17

“Я думаю, уже сейчас нашу платформу используют более 80 разработчиков. Для сравнения, Polkadot используют 400 разработчиков… Я думаю, что мы скоро достигнем уровня Polkadot. И это очень скоро.” (“I think more than 80 developers already use our platform. For comparison, Polkadot is used by 400 developers… I think we’ll reach Polkadot’s level soon. Very soon.”)” — Greg Osuri, 00:17:17

“You are selling your data without consent for the most part, and I think the future is consent… I think the future is about sovereignty. It’s not about reduced capability… you as a user are going to have a lot more control as to what data you want to sell versus what data you don’t want to sell.” — Greg Osuri, 00:42:02

“Akash just literally launched three months ago and we are more than doubling every month in terms of applications we deployed… right now, I believe, about 50 application deploys a day… sometimes we range from 50 to 100 deployments a day, and we’re three months old. We grew 17x in the last two months in terms of deployments.” — Greg Osuri, 00:26:09

“There was this quote from Rosa Luxemburg… ‘people that don’t move don’t notice their chains.’ Right now you are in these chains by the centralized infrastructure that literally exist because you’re comfortable with it… The moment you start moving and really putting these into perspective, you’ll see it’s kind of messed up. Decentralized infrastructure is ready, d-web is here, adoption is growing.” — Greg Osuri, 00:27:06

“If you tell me nothing bad happens, I’ll tell you you’re full of [it]. Something bad will happen — and when a centralized platform can censor a sitting US president, that tells you the amount of power these platforms have… We are seeing quite a bit of weaponizing of this deplatforming by state actors looking to hurt companies or organizations that have disagreement with these states… We as a society owe it to take back the power to ourselves.” — Greg Osuri, 00:07:49

“I think right now you have the technology that’s prime, so developers can build censorship-resistant networks. I think the future is going to highly demand that — if not, the demand is already here — and we need platforms like YouTube that’s censorship resistant… highly encourage people to go build it, and we’ll even fund them.” — Greg Osuri, 00:24:41

“A lot of very innovative use cases that are not possible in the cloud today are being built on Akash, and it’s only a matter of time you’ll start actually using Akash without knowing you’re using Akash.” — Greg Osuri, 00:19:33

“That’s why I’m really bullish on metaverse — the idea of creating virtual communities a lot more immersive. I personally invested in a few metaverse companies and I’m looking forward to a good future that embraces virtual communities.” — Greg Osuri, 01:06:53

“We’re saying increasingly de-platforming becoming a threat to our civil liberties… it’s not so much about what side of the political spectrum you fall under, but the fact that there’s a single company or a single individual or entity that has so much power on civil liberties is what’s concerning.” — Greg Osuri, 00:02:10

“We’re seeing increasingly de-platforming becoming a threat to our civil liberties… it’s not so much about what side of the political spectrum you fall under, but the fact that there’s a single company or a single individual or entity that has so much power on civil liberties is what’s concerning.” — Greg Osuri, 00:02:53

“If you put privacy first, that is inherently dangerous for decentralization — I won’t say dangerous, but that goes against the open system policy… when you have systems that are open, that leads to more participation, that leads to more innovation.” — Greg Osuri, 04:29:52

“I’m actually weirdly a little optimistic just looking at our history of tool adoption… when the internet really came about… people did adopt internet because the convenience of an open system, the value of an open system… even though it wasn’t very clear, somehow it was perceived as valuable.” — Greg Osuri, 04:45:33

“I think it’s only time that will eventually make privacy a lot more valuable. You see something like Signal — Signal is a great privacy messenger, but it’s also a messenger, right? The value proposition is just not purely privacy, but it’s private messages… we can build applications that have privacy as a core primitive and build value on top of that.” — Greg Osuri, 04:47:00

“The way I would define surveillance capitalism is a modern-day business model where everything we do is tracked and analyzed and monetized… this didn’t really exist 10 years ago… Google really knows… when you’re pregnant, Facebook knows when you have a period, my Fitbit knows when I’m having sex… How did we end up here? I think we traded convenience for privacy without even realizing what we’re trading for, and we traded user experience for privacy.” — Greg Osuri, 04:29:07

“If you put privacy first, that is inherently dangerous for decentralization… when you have systems that are open, that leads to more participation, that leads to more innovation. So I really don’t know what the answer is — do we do privacy first, or do we do decentralization first, or can we do both? And if you do both, how is the user experience going to look? A lot of unanswered questions.” — Greg Osuri, 00:16:18

“I’ve seen quite a bit of anti-Facebook, anti-big-tech creeping into the mainstream — I mean, my mom is concerned about Facebook prying on us. So that’s an indication that the infringement of privacy is becoming a lot more mainstream. I think it’s only time that will eventually make privacy a lot more valuable.” — Greg Osuri, 00:33:25

“The most lucrative monetization mechanism happens to be surveillance capital… the way I would define surveillance capitalism is a modern-day business model where everything we do is tracked and analyzed and monetized… Google really knows when you’re pregnant, Facebook knows when you have a period, my Fitbit knows when I’m having sex… we traded convenience for privacy without even realizing what we are trading for.” — Greg Osuri, 00:15:37

“Remember, we are in the midst of the largest migration from web 2 to web 3. The fact that Elon Musk is talking about web3 just tells you how far we’ve come… web 2 developers using web3 tools with subpar experience is going to be bad, so my goal is to make sure that doesn’t happen… the user has to be delighted to a point that they don’t want to go back to web 2.” — Greg Osuri, 00:51:24