He doesn't do development himself(he does review everything before it goes into the production branch), simply that he knows better developers than I.
I have re-written much of our original code to a point where it is of good quality, both in it's intended role and in readability.
I did have a habit of cutting corners which later came back to bite us but that is not the case anymore.
> The rest of my advice assumes the CEO (your co-founder) has quite a bit of confidence in the CTO.
This is the case, it is in my interest however to remain in the company because my equity is vested, the sooner I leave the less I will get in return, apart from my time, and opportunity cost I invested all my personal wealth.
I'm the tech orientated founder (the other is the business guy), not the best coder but I understand my domain and know my abilities.We brought in a guy as CTO to help us move past problems we were having (feature creep, project management, enterprise level etc.).The guy has a lot of experience as CTO (I had very little, also little as a coder), and he was instrumental in getting us to the...