Business Ecosystem Quotes

“Businesses want to plug into the Mayflower-Plymouth ecosystem because in this ecosystem, good businesses become better.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In closed loop systems, flow facilitates flow and liquidity facilitates liquidity. Rainforests dont run out of water because of the cycles and relationships between the elements in the rainforest ecosystem. Business ecosystems can facilitate liquidity in the same way.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Everything we need to know about upcycling, we can learn from fungi.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Managing waste is a really bad goal. Only an inefficient system would aim to manage waste. A better goal is making waste non-existent by designing the system itself, through it's participants, to continually upcycle resources.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Fungi are decentralized intelligence networks. They send information multi-directionally, they constantly evolve and adapt based on feedback from their environment, they invent new molecules to collaborate... And they form a decentralized consensus on how to utilize resources, when to reproduce and what strategies to employ. This is how businesses and business ecosystems should be.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Can we train an AI to exist in service to the efficiency of a business ecosystem? I'd like to explore that possibility.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“Municipalities that foster thriving business ecosystems can issue more investable bonds.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr