What’s the Hardest Part of Finding Business Partners (for strategic partnerships)?

Serious question: Why is finding the right business partner so hard?

  1. Cold emails never get answered.
  2. Wrong people pick up the phone.
  3. By the time I find the right partner, my competitor already got them.

Some AI tools are now helping with this, basically serving as a B2B matchmaking platform and predicting the best partnerships before they even happen. Game-changer.

Has anyone found a faster or smarter way to do this?