All businesses are there to make money. “Make the world a better place?” Sure! But you can’t do that without money - it’ll be an existential crisis, if you can’t also make money while doing that. if your values are at odds with money, At what point do you give up your values? Maybe lose the battle to fight an another day? Or is the value too precious to compromise now? There are very very few who didn’t compromise - Recently read about Lavabit, who shutdown their business to avoid government making use of their encryption keys. Huge respect. That’s not to say values would be the right decision all the time. Heard that Elon had to apologize to their SEBI equivalent admitting wrong doing to prevent his company from dying. He compares it to having a gun to their child head and he was forced to admit guilt even though he wasn’t. But he did that and his company survived and he gets to talk about “those bastards” publicly. What’s the right decision? Like everything in life, no one really knows!
PS: Personally, I believe Zerodha compromised on many values, latest being when they implemented MTF, and may continue to do so. Again, may be the right decision or may not be.