Despite zero financial literacy education growing up, Uptown resident Jeff Badu, a licensed CPA, became a millionaire before age 30. Now he wants to give back. His Badu Foundation seeks to provide the financial literacy he calls the secret, plus scholarships, to inner city youth. Badu‘s firm, which started with the purchase of one unit in 2017, now independently owns 118 affordable housing units throughout the South Side.
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The latter he achieved by age 25, despite zero financial literacy education growing up.
Had he learned about money at a younger age, he feels it wouldn’t have taken him as long.
So now the millennial, a resident of Uptown and founder and CEO of Badu Enterprises, LLC, a multinational firm with a successful real estate arm which began with the purchase of one unit in 2017 and now owns 118 units wants to help youth like him achieve the same.