I almost quit over a micro-managing, angry chief technical architect at a small company. I was leading development, but he overruled all my decisons, hired diff

I almost quit over a micro-managing, angry chief technical architect at a small company. I was leading development, but he overruled all my decisons, hired different people, and was generally unpleasant. He was friends with the owner. The COO talked me into taking a different position working on protocol development, where I would largely be free of him. Six months later, the person who replaced me as development lead very memorably and repeatedly accused this architect of being a psychopath in a senior meeting.