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What I do
Find something early, talk to the people closest to it, understand how the money works, then build something useful around it.
Helping businesses and creators put AI to work, from the team room to the edit suite.
Three businesses serving the writers, actors, producers and platforms building vertical and microdrama.
The podcast I launched in 2014, the writing that grew out of it, and the executive voice work I now do for CEOs and founders.
Power Hours · Business Insider
I ask them, hour by hour. Seven interviews published so far, five more on the way.
The operating habits of the executive leading one of the world's largest industrial technology companies, from early workouts to two-letter email replies.
Read on Business Insider Power HoursA day inside the life of the executive behind the Oura Ring, including the data he checks before making decisions and what changes when the company is under pressure.
Read on Business Insider Power HoursInside the global routine of the entrepreneur who built one of the world's best-known private aviation companies.
Read on Business Insider Power HoursHow one of the longest-serving Fortune 500 CEOs uses accessibility and "management by wandering around" to run the company.
Read on Business Insider Power HoursWhat changes when your company is a private residential ship moving around the planet.
Read on Business Insider Power HoursA highly structured daily routine spanning investing, longevity, philanthropy and private life.
Read on Business Insider Power HoursThe Monaco-based routine of the executive running the world's largest yacht brokerage, from beating the morning traffic to leading a team of 230.
Read on Business InsiderHow the founder behind VaynerMedia and VaynerX structures his working day.
Coming soon to Business InsiderHow the founder of SERHANT. runs his working day.
Coming soon to Business InsiderA day in the life of the executive leading the family history and consumer DNA company.
Coming soon to Business InsiderInside the working day of the founder behind Bilt.
Coming soon to Business InsiderA day with the co-CEO of the Raising Cane's restaurant chain.
Coming soon to Business InsiderMy Roland Busch interview led Business Insider's homepage for a week, then ran in Fortune, Inc. and Business Insider Deutschland.
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Articles and essays
Bylines in SUCCESS, Fox Business, CNET, CEOWORLD and HuffPost, plus the Power Hours series at Business Insider.
Read on Business Insider
About
My career makes more sense backward than it did while I was living it.
I trained in finance and spent my early years in equity research and consulting.
On paper, that looked like the obvious path. Then I discovered I enjoyed asking questions as much as building models.
In 2014, I launched a podcast called The Bulletproof Entrepreneur. At first, it focused heavily on African entrepreneurship. Over time, the conversations widened. I spoke with founders, executives, investors, authors and operators about what it actually takes to build something durable.
That work changed the direction of my career. I began writing more seriously, and writing became the center of my work.
The questions I asked on the podcast now drive my work at Business Insider, where I interview CEOs and founders for first-person profiles about how they work and live. They also led me into vertical entertainment.
I became fascinated by short, mobile-first scripted drama and the infrastructure forming around it. The content was moving quickly. The professional ecosystem around it was not. So I started building, beginning with Vertical Drama Jobs in 2025.
Everything I've built comes from the same habit: find something interesting early, talk to the people closest to it, understand how the money and incentives work, and build something useful around what you learn. That's the work I plan to keep doing.
Finance at Liberty University, then Brandeis for international economics and finance.
Equity research at Renaissance Capital.
Valuation and private equity consulting.
Launched The Bulletproof Entrepreneur.
E-commerce entrepreneurship, plus real estate development and finance.
Capital raising for one of Canada's largest charities.
Media consulting, full-time podcasting and ghostwriting.
Personal finance, AI and executive storytelling.
Vertical entertainment and AI.
Founder-led marketing and earned media
Small sessions, delivered remotely. No stages, no keynotes.
What makes an editor say yes, from the other side of the pitch.
Writing and appearing as yourself, instead of routing everything through a comms team.
Patterns from interviewing leaders running major global companies.
How to spot an under-covered industry and build content, community, events and data products around it.
Chi Odogwu is a writer, entrepreneur and consultant. He writes for Business Insider, hosts The Bulletproof Entrepreneur podcast, and builds businesses in AI and vertical entertainment, including Vertical Drama Jobs and the Micro Drama Summit.
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