Business Finance Editor
MBA, Wharton School of Business
David Rodriguez leads FundingPoint's business finance coverage. With an MBA from Wharton and 15 years of experience in business journalism, he's helped thousands of small business owners navigate the often-confusing world of commercial lending.
Before joining FundingPoint, David was a senior editor at Inc. Magazine, where he wrote extensively about startup funding and small business growth strategies. He also spent three years as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs, which gave him firsthand experience with how capital markets actually work.
David started his first business—a tutoring company—while still in graduate school. The experience of trying to secure a $25,000 line of credit with no business credit history taught him just how challenging it can be for new entrepreneurs to access capital. That frustration drives his mission to demystify business financing for FundingPoint's readers.
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