‘Your back’s against the wall’: How two Gen-Z founders bet everything on a Brooklyn laundromat

Fortune•Sun, Aug 9, 2026, 12:00 PM•2 min read

Their advisers said building a laundromat from scratch was a mistake. Ireland McCaughey and Ben Razin knew they could prove them wrong.

Source: [Fortune](https://fortune.com/2026/08/09/gen-z-founders-laundromat-moved-across-country/)

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