Come on. You can't just conjour up a laundrette like you spin up an AWS instance. You need to find real estate, employees, equipment. All of those will have been redistributed when the business shut down and any new proprietor will have to start all over from scratch.

I think the GPs point was that presumably the equipment and real estate still existed at some point after wash.io shut down. They could have been sold off as businesses rather than simply being dumped through an auction house, but it sounds like that's not what happened.

> Where did all the washing machines go?

Presumably, to places where a VC backed startup hadn't destroyed the laundromat industry. San Francisco is not a closed economy.

> Where did all the washing machines go?

Probably to community theaters (Or hotels, or the equivalents thereof) in Pittsburgh, who picked them up for a discount at a liquidation auction.

Great news for out-of-state community theater, bad news if you need your laundry done in California.

Either that, or they went straight to the junkyard. Move fast and break things.

Knowing how high-cycle industrial equipment goes, probably scrapped.