Given the diverse paths to success of successful companies you can always find examples to justify any practice.
That said, I like @pmarca's Moby Dick theory of big companies. A huge biz dev deal is a big catch but more likely to crush you instead.
https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part5.html …
Microsoft was a partner with IBM, but Google was more a supplier to Yahoo.
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