The Power of Starting A Small, Righteous Business
I'm done jumping from ship to ship of unhealed people who compromise their integrity for paychecks
Today it finally clicked:
I cannot keep depending on unhealed, unchristian, or highly prideful people for my livelihood.
The pattern is always the same. I join an organization with a mission I believe in. I pour my heart into the work. Then I discover the leadership operates from compromise, ego, or outright deception. When I speak truth about what needs to change, I get pushed out or marginalized.
Alpha Schools is the latest example. All the same story: promising missions corrupted by people who haven't submitted their hearts to Christ.
Here's what I learned from my conversation today with Mike Ajouz, a Wall Street veteran who came to Christ four years ago: Structure your life so you can be truthful. Build a box so that when you stand on the box, it is your box.
That box is an autonomous platform. A small, righteous business that allows me to maintain Christian morals in a fallen world without compromise.
Having been first introduced to the tech world through a highly successful startup with millions of users, then joining Google which has billions of users, I used to think small meant settling. I was wrong.
Small can mean sovereignty from the fallen world. When you start small and righteous, you can say no to everything that violates your conscience. You can tell the truth without fear of losing your income. You can build slowly but build right.
Mike encouraged me to be independent. And then from that place of independence, do my best work in alignment with God.
Independence matters because when you depend on compromised institutions for survival, you inevitably compromise yourself. When you build your own foundation, you can stand on solid ground.
The world tells us to think big, scale fast, chase investors. That's exactly backward. Think small, build right, serve faithfully. Better to properly serve ten people than to process thousands through systems that produce spiritual degeneration.
Quality over immediate growth. Truth over hype. Faithfulness over fame.
Mike emphasized to me that a Christian business can and must be competitive. After all, the business arena is one of the most neglected area where Christianity is competing with paganism and atheism. It needs to get competitive again.
We compete not by cutting corners and compromising our values, but by proving those values create better outcomes. Not by scaling broken things, but by starting righteous things.
The narrow path is narrow for a reason. But those willing to walk it with their own two feet, standing on their own foundation, can actually change the world.
Build your box. Stand on it. Then expand it on your terms.
I'm still exploring what this small, righteous business might look like for me personally, but I have faith that through prayer and fellowship, it will all be clear soon.
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other." — Matthew 6:24