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Get closer to the deer. Talk numbers. Whats your current revenue? How fast is it growing? What is your partner’s goal in 1,10 years? What’s his strategy of achieving it? From this it is easy to set up timeframes and equity share steps. Your product worth nothing until it is a profitable business, it is a liability. Sorry to disappoint but business side of things worth much more than coding (if it is done well), and the only way to know how well it is done — measure revenue and other business metrics. Not lines of code (the more of them the worse, actually).