California's personal finance requirement
A stand-alone, one-semester personal finance course becomes a graduation requirement for public high school students in the class of 2030 to 2031.
California · Atherton and Palo Alto
Private finance tutoring for families in Atherton, Palo Alto, and Menlo Park.
Silicon Valley students grow up around startups and stock options, and many still have never been taught how the finance works. California will require a semester of personal finance for public high school students in the class of 2030 to 2031, and independent schools here set their own courses.
Private 1-on-1 on Zoom · $250 / hour
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The courses
What we work on.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
Menlo School, Sacred Heart, Castilleja, Palo Alto High, Gunn, Crystal Springs, Harker
Each school teaches business and finance differently. We work from the course your student is actually taking.
Startup finance
Equity, valuation, and how companies raise money come up at dinner and in entrepreneurship programs. I explain the real mechanics, not the headlines.
Corporate finance over break
Students home from Stanford and colleges across the country often bring their hardest class with them. Winter break and summer are the best time to fix corporate finance before the next exam, and I teach it at the level their course expects.
Atherton and Palo Alto · California
Where students get stuck.
Fluent in tech, new to finance
Students who code easily can still get lost in discounting and valuation. We use the logic they already have to make it click.
Pacific time, busy weeks
Sessions run evenings and weekends in Pacific time, around sports, robotics, and everything else.
Valuation
How much is a company worth, and why? It's the question behind every startup conversation, and we answer it with real math.
For parents
Parents usually book, and your student joins on Zoom from Atherton, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Los Altos, or anywhere on the Peninsula. Send me the course and what's giving your student trouble, and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.
How a session works
Diagnosis first. Then the fix.
- 01
Before we meet
Send me what you're stuck on: a problem set, slides, your last midterm, a practice exam, last week's quiz.
- 02
On Zoom
You walk me through a problem out loud. It usually takes a few minutes to hear where the reasoning goes sideways. We fix that piece and rebuild from there, so you know why each step works.
- 03
Before we finish
The real test: a fresh problem with new numbers and different wording, the way a midterm would ask it, and you solve it yourself. I don't complete assignments or hand over answers. You leave able to do the work.
Your tutor
Studied it. Worked in it. Now I teach it.
I’m Chi Odogwu. I have a B.S. in Business with a finance specialization from Liberty University, earned summa cum laude in three years, and a Master’s in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis. I tutored IB students in grad school, did valuation and private equity consulting at PwC, taught MBA finance at Florida State, and spent three years as an adjunct professor teaching Business Finance.
Questions
Before you book.
Can you teach finance beyond the school curriculum?
Yes. Many students here want corporate finance and valuation early, and that's the same material I teach college and MBA students.
Does the California requirement apply to private schools?
AB 2927 covers public high schools. Private schools set their own courses, and I can help with those too.
Will tutoring get in the way of my student's teacher?
No. I work from the teacher's materials and never complete graded work, so sessions support the class instead of replacing it.
Is tutoring allowed under my school's honor code?
Tutoring on concepts and practice problems is generally fine, but policies on graded work vary by course. I don't complete graded assignments. Check your syllabus's collaboration policy, and if you're unsure, ask your professor.
Get started
Bring the problem you’re stuck on.
Tell me your course and what isn’t clicking. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
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