The thing is that nowadays everyone is talking about partnerships too much. Like lots of project have tons of partnerships and even after 2-3 years still don't have a working product, adoption or any proper stuff out. So it's not about partnerships, they do bring something to the table I admit, but most important part is that the team behind the project knows what they are doing and EO.Trade certainly looks exactly like that. Partnerships will come as project goes on simply because project is doing great and people will want to come in, but that is not a must have for a project to be successful!
Thats kinda true, word "partnership" has been thrown around a lot, you really need to dig deep and check if that partnership makes any sense. But then again, you cant without those when it comes to business.
And let's not forget that those ''partnerships'' could be just bought for the sake of the name.