Do You Have to Fight the Founder on What You Found?

Do you come in with a different level of authority, or perspective from an employee? Do they just listen to what you say, or did you have to fight the founder on what you discovered? There is another thing being a newbie when you come into a business. So we can see this passion project, but one of the first things we saw was that the company credit card was maxed out,. But the founder was just reluctant to let go.