Can also succeed by effectively targeting vulnerable consumers, deploying deceptive marketing tactics, lobbying for favorable laws for your company, or purposefully ignoring the law successfully. Or monopolize and milk a basic need like medicine for common disease. Or run sweatshops to minimize cost at expense of everything else. Sell weapons to regimes known for their human rights abuses.
Secure a license to take up finite resources without regard for sustainability or at underprice. Manage to externalize costs for necessary environmental protection.
I would claim it is easier to make money the more of such bad things you are willing to do.
Also, a bunch of people have good access to capital just because who luck chose as their parents.