There must be many answers.
What I learned from the partner of British descent mixed is for your reference only.
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Control the main business by yourself after you get opportunity and capital from your funding partners.
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Make the public believe that you got success by yourself without partners.
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Provide additional benefits and future prospects to core employees.
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Encourage and instigate core employees to isolate the founding partner.
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Encourage and instigate core employees to discuss the founder’s privacy and occupy the moral high ground.
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Simply put them on ice.
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Negotiate for equity acquisition when your funding partner got confused.
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Replace old staffs step by step to change blood then new staffs got no idea about other partners at all.
Cheers.