Economics & Finance
Vertical Integration as a Platform
Starting from a specific industry's core bottleneck, building an end-to-end standardized supply chain, and using software and process innovation to eliminate intermediary friction—ultimately becoming the industry's infrastructure layer. Unlike traditional vertical integration (centralized control of the entire production process), this approach uses data, standardization, and tools to operate a dispersed network of suppliers on a single platform.
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