Within six hours of JP Morgan's statement confirming active discussions, the bank's external relations desk had received contact attempts from forty-three companies across seventeen countries.
By the end of the business day the number had crossed two hundres and the volume was still climbing.
The logic was straightforward and everyone using it understood that everyone else was using it simultaneously. Nova Technologies had no public business development channel. The CEO had no known contact information. The company had demonstrated repeatedly that it didn't respond to unsolicited outreach.
But JP Morgan had just confirmed a partnership — which meant JP Morgan had a relationship, and a relationship was a door, and a door was more than anyone else currently had.
