After Earnings · Oct 29, 2026 · 32m · 27m saved
With Ron Biscardi, Co-founder and CEO, iConnections
Ron Biscardi, co-founder and CEO of capital-introduction firm iConnections, told Austin Hankwitz on After Earnings that his new TomorrowX conference recreates the small-room access of an invite-only Goldman Sachs or JPMorgan CEO conference — at a fraction of the price, and open to retail investors.
"If you are an institutional investor, you are very likely on the list of invites from Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan... What we're trying to do with TomorrowX is to create that access for a much broader set of investors." — Ron Biscardi
Ron built iConnections into a capital-introduction business running a flagship Miami conference with close to 6,000 attendees and 20,000-25,000 one-on-one meetings a year, matching institutional investors with alternative-investment fund managers.
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Here are the 4 takeaways that matter.
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Key Takeaways
TomorrowX exists because two investors talked him out of a smaller idea
Gavin Baker and Antonio Gracias said Miami lacked the tech-hub credibility for a tech-CEO event, then proposed Austin themselves
Public companies now chase Substack and X analysts, not just Wall Street's
His bar for relevance: roughly 4,000-5,000 followers, enough that one post "can easily get millions of views"
TomorrowX prices a Goldman-style conference at $500 to $10,000, not invite-only
Active X contributors, including short sellers, get free access because the event wants substantive voices
The 2026 theme pushes back on AI doom narratives because the job-loss predictions "have not borne themselves out"
Every CEO on stage will be asked how AI creates jobs, not just cuts them
1. The Austin Pivot
Ron's business already connects institutional investors with fund managers, and he wanted to bring technology CEOs into that world — but his first instinct, folding a tech track into the Miami conference, got vetoed by the two investors he asked for advice.
Gavin Baker and Antonio Gracias told him Miami wasn't credible enough, then built the event with him anyway
"This is a new creature that didn't really exist 10 or 15 years ago, and it's become very, very important to the public companies." — Ron Biscardi
Baker, of Atreides, and Gracias, of Valor Equity Partners, argued Miami lacked Austin's or the Bay Area's technology-hub credibility and that the idea deserved its own event — then called Ron months later to propose partnering on one themselves. TomorrowX is the result: a lineup Ron named as including NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Michael Dell, Goldman Sachs' David Solomon, Blackstone's Jon Gray and Apollo's Marc Rowan, held at the Moody Center, the arena where the University of Texas basketball team plays.
