Inside Big Sean’s Plan To Jump-Start Entrepreneurship In Detroit

Big Sean, Big Bank: The Detroit-born hip-hop star (center) has teamed up with Ally Financial to bring dozens of young entrepreneurs to his hometown.

Growing up in Detroit, Big Sean learned how to make mixtapes as a teenager and released his first platinum album at age 23. But lessons on how to handle the fruits of his labor came later.

“Financial literacy isn’t really taught so much in school as it should be,” he explains. “That’s something that I missed out on, and later on in life was one o...