# Lovable — Do You Need a CTO to Launch Your Startup?

- Company: Lovable (lovable.dev)
- Announced: 2025-02-24T10:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
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- Group: routine
- Source: https://lovable.dev/blog/do-you-need-a-cto-as-startup
- Record: https://forck.live/items/12158-do-you-need-a-cto-to-launch-your-startup
- Subject: Lovable / AI app builder

Lovable's guide advises founders on whether to hire a CTO from day one, depending on their technical skills, product complexity, and resources. It suggests that technical founders can build and iterate before hiring, while non-technical founders can use no-code tools or outsourcing. The guide concludes that a CTO is not needed to launch but becomes essential for scaling.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://lovable.dev/blog/do-you-need-a-cto-as-startup:

> You don’t need a CTO to launch, but you might need one to scale.

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