Seems like an over-simplification. The CTO (or technical cofounder) is a key piece of the machine that enables you to iterate quickly to find product/market fit

Seems like an over-simplification. The CTO (or technical cofounder) is a key piece of the machine that enables you to iterate quickly to find product/market fit, and thus get the sales. This article almost seems to advocate not bothering with a good CTO and getting a good sales guy instead... but if you do that, you'll have a whole different set of problems. So the boring, but correct, take-away, is: You need a great CTO - and you need a great CEO who can sell the product too.