Ron Biscardi
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Ron Biscardi presents as a textbook Catalyst: someone who identifies friction in a system and builds the mechanism to release it. In this interview, Biscardi describes launching iConnections in April 2020 not despite the chaos of COVID but precisely because of it, recognizing that a face-to-face industry had lost its operating infrastructure overnight.
“Our software that works incredibly well at connecting everyone in the events, we've extended to make it possible to do this no matter where you are in the world and to help you plan these in advance.”
“I would say for the average mortal who tries to start a fund, who does have a track record, does have experience. You have to be in it for the long term and you have to build relationships with the LP base. And you have to have an expectation that this is going to be a very long sales cycle because it just is.”
“In this event, the very first meeting that took place was between a fund in Hong Kong and And I think it was the Kansas State Endowment. And I thought, there's no way these people would have ever met. So I... Recognized right away, wow, the power of having a platform, you can do things globally and Really easily now.”
“So I guess it was around 2013 I had this opportunity to purchase this conference that was about to go out of business because it was associated with a hedge fund platform that was struggling, had actually gotten into some financial trouble, ultimately went out of business.”
Money Maze Podcast: “The Courtship of Investment Allocators & Managers: Inside iConnections - With Ron Biscardi”
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