15 Hot Takes on VC and AI from the 2026 Allocate Beyond Summit

I just attended Allocate’s Beyond Summit in Deer Valley Utah. It was a peek into what the top VC's and LP’s are thinking about right now.

Allocate asked me to record an episode of the show, live from the conference.

So I asked everyone “What’s your hottest take on the VC market today?”

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Timestamps:
(1:22) Seed investing is dead (Tripp Jones, Uncork)
(5:56) Seed is not dead (Bryan Rosenblatt, Sandlot)
(13:19) Most consensus era of VC ever (Nate Williams, Union)
(18:02) Taking the Power Law Pill (Pratyush Buddiga, Susa Ventures)
(29:15) The 2nd-time founder premium is dead (Matt Cohen, Ripple Ventures)
(32:46) AI will crush intelligence labor (Clark Cheng, Merrimac)
(42:25) New deep tech investors will lose their shirts (Sunil Nagaraj, Ubiquity Ventures)
(46:39) ChatGPT for robotics is still 15 years away (Sungjoon Cho, Fortitude Ventures)
(52:07) The app layer ARR reckoning (Josh Christensen, Mercato)
(58:30) The AI bubble will pop in Q2/Q3 (Amias Gerety, QED)
(1:08:22) Most individuals do VC wrong (Jon Oberheide)
(1:15:25) Allocators have become too allocator-y (Dan Feder, University of Michigan)
(1:20:55) LP’s should value information, not just returns (Ben Ivey, Marshall Street)
(1:24:09) Upcoming litigation of Russian doll SPVs (Asher Siddiqui, Song United)
(1:30:13) Why retail needs private market access (Sarah Pinto Peyronel, Robinhood Ventures)

Referenced
beyondsummit.allocate.co

Tripp Jones, Uncork Capital
Twitter: x.com/thistrippjones

Bryan Rosenblatt, Sandlot
Twitter: x.com/BRosenblatt4

Nate Williams, Union
Twitter: x.com/naywilliams

Pratyush Buddiga, Susa Ventures
Twitter: x.com/pratyushbuddiga

Matt Cohen, Ripple Ventures
Twitter: x.com/mattybcohen

Clark Cheng, Merrimac
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/clark-cheng-cfa-frm-caia-a411535

Sunil Nagaraj, Ubiquity Ventures
Twitter: x.com/sunilnagaraj

Sungjoon Cho, Fortitude Ventures
Twitter: x.com/josungjoon

Josh Christensen, Mercato
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joshjdmba

Amias Gerety, QED
Twitter: x.com/amiasmg

Jon Oberheide
Twitter: x.com/jonoberheide

Dan Feder, Michigan
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danfeder

Ben Ivey, Marshall Street
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/benivey

Asher Siddiqui, Song United
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ashersiddiqui

Sarah Pinto Peyronel, Robinhood Ventures
Twitter: x.com/SPintoPeyronel

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