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How AI Coding Agents Changed What VCs Want From a Technical Cofounder

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By Dave Barr
| StartupFortune
AI coding agents have gotten good enough that a founder with no engineering background can ship a working product in a weekend, and that is forcing venture capitalists to rethink the old rule that every startup needs a technical cofounder. For a decade, the pitch-deck orthodoxy was simple. No technical cofounder, no meeting.
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Crypto Just Lost BitMEX, BitMart, Movement Labs and Storj in One Week

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By Dave Barr
| StartupFortune
More than 100 crypto exchanges, wallets, DeFi protocols and blockchains have shut down or gone bankrupt in 2026, and four big names collapsed in the same single week. BitMEX invented the perpetual swap, the contract that now underpins most crypto derivatives trading. In late July it announced it's closing for good, winding down permanently in September. It wasn't alone.
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Gold Jumps Over $100 After a Shockingly Weak July Jobs Report

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By Dave Barr
| StartupFortune
Spot gold spiked to roughly $4,355 an ounce this week, one of its sharpest single-session moves in months, after a July jobs report showed the US economy shedding workers instead of adding them. Gold traders got the number they'd been waiting for. It was ugly. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the US economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a stunning miss against the roughly 83,000 gain that economists polled by Dow Jones had expected.
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