# Closed stacks go fast; open systems go far

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-03-30
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** X Spaces with Akash Network: Democratizing Compute on Subnet 27 (Nodexo)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:46 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77HfFvrhmsQ&t=1006s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2024-03-30-closed-stacks-go-fast-open-systems-go-far-g3zu/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Closed stacks go fast; open systems go far," X Spaces with Akash Network: Democratizing Compute on Subnet 27 (Nodexo), 30 Mar 2024, 00:16:46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77HfFvrhmsQ&t=1006s

## Quote — verbatim

> You can have a fully vertically integrated stack... yes, you can get adoption very quickly if you do it fully custodial, but you can go fast — you can't go far. Really, open systems that are open to everybody and give opportunity for people to build on top of it tend to go much further. That's why I'm a big believer in open systems.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

On adoption drivers; paired with his "build 95%, leave 5% for smart people to finish" philosophy and the argument that permissionless rails stop platforms from killing businesses built on them.