EchoTech's valuation dropped forty percent over the weekend.
Not from a ruling. Not from a court order. From confidence — the invisible, structural thing that holds a startup's worth together the way tension holds a bridge, which can be present on a Tuesday and absent by Thursday if enough people in enough rooms start asking the same questions without receiving clean answers.
The board's draw-down freeze had leaked Friday evening. Someone on the board, Patricia suspected, though the direction was not yet confirmed. By Saturday morning the leak had been picked up by four financial publications — not tech-lifestyle blogs, not comment-section speculation, but the kind of outlets that institutional investors read before making decisions. By Sunday the story had merged with three weeks of @Tr
