India, Nov. 24 -- A Hyderabad-based CEO has disputed an investor's advice about building companies to solve problems rather than to get rich. Jitendra Emmani, the co-founder and CEO of Cozy Farms, is of the opinion that it is perfectly acceptable to build companies with the sole purpose of making money.

Emmani's advice on building for wealth vs passion comes from personal experience. In a post shared on the social media platform X, the CEO of Cozy Farms explained that he built his first company, called Picxy, to solve a problem he cared deeply about.

Emmani was studying at the Northern Illinois University in the US and working on a media portal highlighting stories from South India when he noticed a lack of stock images representing Ind...