There is also the possibility that he gets to know your operation behind the scene--the strengths and weaknesses and uses it to one-up bitshares....and gets paid for it. Like toast said, there is a range of potential outcomes.
Toast already knows my secret motive: convincing BitShares to move aggressively on .p2p!
Back in September (long before I ever spoke with Toast 1:1) I wrote a forum post outlining why BitShares and other cryptos are not our enemies but our allies (cannot post links, check the Namecoin blog). Namecoin developers are motivated solely by a desire to make the internet usable, censorship resistant, and secure. I'm betting that BitShares will want a part of this revolution.
Bitcoin has already made the devastating 2011 banking blockade of Wikileaks an event that could not be repeated today. When Tor integrates .bit directly, the Wikileaks Tor hidden service will be accessible at Wikileaks.bit to everyone running Firefox; removing DNS from the censors' toolkit! Blockchain based identity will help secure communications for whistle-blowers like Snowden. And proof-of-bandwidth will make Tor scalable.
Even if one of my proposals goes through I get to work on Namecoin full-time, I want to collaborate with BitShares. I'm looking forward to "[getting] to know your operation behind the scene--the strengths and weaknesses" because complementary differences make our combined efforts more sustainable. I spoke with Vitalik this week, and I can assure you that there are common areas of interest for all of the major cryptos.
That being said, even Linus had to work for Transmeta for six years before switching to kernel development full time. I think I have a lot to offer BitShares and I'm looking foward to working with the team.