You need to be willing to walk away from the partnership if necessary. Not that it&#x27;s something you want to do, but you can&#x27;t let fear of it control your actions.<p>Or conversely, if you decide you can&#x27;t do that because you don&#x27;t have a viable business without it, then you need to acknowledge that you aren&#x27;t building something that has a chance of being an independent company, you&#x27;re going for a pure acquihire play.<p>And if the latter is the case, you need to re-evaluate. Acquihire can be a fine plan B, but if it&#x27;s plan A, is this still the best thing you could be doing with your time? Maybe it is, but maybe it&#x27;s not; it&#x27;s a question you have to ask yourselves.