📌 Don't Try to Copy Silicon Valley
A garage, a genius inventor, or a single breakthrough chip didn't build Silicon Valley. It was built on layers of agricultural land, migrant labor, university research, capital, and decades of interdependent infrastructure – a lesson Barry Katz shared during the AgriTech Business Accelerator Program at University of California, Berkeley.
⚡ The insight goes beyond history. Ecosystems aren't copied, they're assembled from the specific assets a region or a company already has. Silicon Valley didn't become what it is because someone decided to replicate it elsewhere. It emerged because agricultural infrastructure, research institutions, capital, and talent connected into a functioning system over time.
“For B2B companies building supply chain ecosystems today, the same principle applies at a smaller scale,” – says Vasyl Korchynskyi, CEO of Portality. – “No two companies' partner networks look alike: different contractors, different processes, different levels of digital maturity. Trying to force every vendor, distributor, or client into one rigid workflow rarely works. What works is identifying the assets already in place – existing data, existing relationships, existing processes – and connecting them into something that functions as a whole”.
This is one of the reasons Portality is built as a constructor rather than a rigid, one-size-fits-all platform, so businesses can shape a self-service ecosystem around their own processes, partners, and pace of digital transformation, instead of adapting themselves to someone else's template.
💡 What are the unique assets already sitting in your supply chain? Are you building around them, or still trying to fit into someone else's system?
3 August 2026 à 09h28
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