Vertical Integration

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2020 Jul 27 0:35
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2025 Nov 12 22:41
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Companies like Apple and Microsoft integrate from hardware to software, or pursue related business areas
Vertical integration means build systems–CI–deployment–version control–IDE–code search–test runners are tightly connected to provide a unified workflow
Early startups are rushed with
MVP
and lack time/resources to build vertical integration. In open source, collaboration issues prevent it.
 
 

Horizontal Integration

Acquiring companies in fields unrelated to the current business
Often called octopus-style expansion
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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