Whitlock had once again found himself in a very tight place, though it no longer surprised him.
It had become a recurring, unending feature of his life since Nova Technologies first made its presence known to the world, but lately, the pressure had grown suffocating. Sharpest of all, it had spiked the moment the company published the figures in its Month 8 Transparency Report.
The numbers were staggering: an eighth fiscal month with a gross economic activity figure of $115.60 billion flowing across the Lucid platform, against retained revenue of $13.71 billion.
With that transparency report, Nova Technologies showed that it had bypassed decades of traditional corporate growth, stepping effortlessly into the rarefied air occupied by the Microsofts and Apples of the world. Those legacy empires had spent entire human lifetimes climbing to their peaks. Nova had arrived beside them in a matter of months.
