The Importance of a CTO in a Startup

The CTO might be kind of the cowboy coder like chief developer type. That can be really valuable for an early stage startup where you're just trying to get as much stuff done as possible and use sacrifice some stuff to do that. It sounds like zero documentation or comments or a brittle hard to understand, hard to test, buggy. Now this case is a little harder because it's actually production code it looks like that's in use. And so it's never easy to propose a rewrite...and doubly hard when the CTO feels personal ownership over the stuff you want to rewrite.