This episode of Venture Stories is co-hosted by Dani Grant (@thedanigrant), analyst at USV.

She talks with three leaders in the distributed computing space:

- Dan Desjardins, CEO of Distributed Compute Labs
- Chandler Song (@chandlersyf), founder and CEO of Ankr Network
- Greg Osuri (@GregOsuri), founder of Akash Network and CEO of Overclock Labs

They talk about what distributed computing is, why it has so much potential and why this is an exciting time to be involved in the space.

The guests talk about what kinds of applications are enabled by distributed computing and how for example, a hospital can leverage the computing power of all of its computers that are sitting idle at night to do medical research.

They discuss the different ways to compensate users for the use of their computer resources and the different approaches to distributing problems and tasks to distributed resources.

They also discuss the challenges facing their companies and how to think about competing or not competing with incumbents like Amazon and Google.

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