I guess as CTO you're already at the top, but if the owner thinks you're doing bad work and you have to fight for resources despite meeting reasonable goals, wh

I guess as CTO you're already at the top, but if the owner thinks you're doing bad work and you have to fight for resources despite meeting reasonable goals, what's the actual payoff working there? You'd be paddling upstream forever, I can't imagine the owner would agree to bonuses or promotions, and I'd reasonably expect the owner would be looking for a replacement CTO at the end of that.