# Solve 99 problems, leave one for smart people

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-03-30
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi)
- **Watch at:** 00:23:26 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=1406s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2023-03-30-solve-99-problems-leave-one-for-smart-people-idus/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Solve 99 problems, leave one for smart people," Mission: DeFi EP 92 - Greg Osuri - Akash is taking on the giants in hosted processing (Mission: DeFi), 30 Mar 2023, 00:23:26. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVH1OYhNOeE&t=1406s

## Quote — verbatim

> My philosophy is: if you have 100 problems, solve 99 of them and give one for smart people to go solve, because once you give smart people opportunity, they will go build amazing things — and that's how Kubernetes worked... it's not \[that\] simplicity is the answer all the time... create great value and create opportunities for smart people to capture value and you're going to create an amazing system.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Why Akash deliberately shipped no first-party web UI — leaving the front-end layer (Cloudmos, Spheron, Fleek, Praetor) as ecosystem opportunity; also used as the episode's cold open.