uh, okay.<p>sounds like the &#x27;business guy&#x27; wasn&#x27;t so good at business.  if you choose a partner and he bails, that&#x27;s your problem.  one of the key tenets of business is keeping people properly incentivized, and he clearly failed at that.<p>and that software guy was also a business guy, by definition.  sounds like he did some intense businessing and got the hell out of that business after realizing he was making a terrible business decision.<p>part of being a &#x27;business&#x27; person is dealing with reality as it exists, not making up narratives that suit your ego.