Mycelium Networks Quotes

“The way fungi and mycorrhizae direct nutrients in biological ecosystems is a case study for how we can direct resources within human economic systems. And in doing this, we cultivate a multitude of business opportunities.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“It's important to empower localized problem-solving in the way mycelium networks do.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we are trying to mimic the intelligence of fungi and mycelium to add value in service to businesses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When we get business networks to function similarly to neural networks and mycelium networks, we'll have a better world.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When we bring businesses together in symbiotic relationships, we end up with a system that is much greater than the sum of its parts.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Mayflower-Plymouth is to businesses what mycorrhizae is to trees.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Self organizing systems tend to be more resilient than bureaucratic systems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In our design of business and economic systems, there's a lot to learn from mycorrhizae and fungi.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Cryptographic tokens can be used as tools of stigmergy to incentivize good behavior and decentivize bad behavior in the context of business systems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When we apply IP licensing at scale in an exclusive system and in alignment with permaculture principles, we give businesses in the network a strategic advantage while helping the world transition to a better state of being.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Game theory has a lot of practical applications in terms of business networks.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The real potential of Web3 is in allowing businesses and people to collectively function more similarly to biological ecosystems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Everything we do at Mayflower-Plymouth is viewed through the lens of capital allocation. Whether it's Blockchain or Quantum Computing or DeFi or Additive Manufacturing or Logistics, we channel that toward helping businesses fulfill solutions and solve problems concerning the allocation of capital.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“At Mayflower-Plymouth, our purpose is to help businesses fulfill solutions and solve problems concerning the allocation of capital. And we do that by modelling mycelium fungal networks.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Capital allocation is about getting resources where they need to be so that they can have the opportunity to be productive. If capital isn't wisely allocated, it can't be productive. And if capital isn't productive, civilization collapses.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“When we talk about capital allocation, we're talking about all kinds of capital - financial capital, social capital, biological capital, human capital, intellectual capital, etc. Capital just means resources, or things capable of producing value.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“The way mycelium produces enzymes to break down complex organic polymers into simpler compounds is a case study for how we can upcycle products and materials in our economy.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“In natural ecosystems, the primary role of the mycelium network is the allocation of capital. That's how the mycelium network helps facilitate the success of all other participants in the ecosystem. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we're doing the same thing in business ecosystems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth, Business Essentials

“Logistics management and supply chain management are just different ways of saying capital allocation.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“According to Freddie, mycelium was the network of fine hyphae (little living threads) that coursed through the soil and stitched the plants and the trees of the forest into a united and communicating whole, a fabric that featured the beavers and the mole crickets and the moose--- in short, it was the basis for the forest. Trees could share nutrients with one another through mycelium. On rare occasions, trees even poisoned plants via mycelium, if they posed some threat to them. But primarily the trees and plants received through the hyphae the minerals and water they needed from the soil, and in return, they offered the fungus the sugar that they, with their leaves, had the ability to produce through photosynthesis.”
― Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey