Sonia Petkovich built MeowTel, the number one cat sitting app in the US, from a side project during her MBA to a profitable company serving over 10,000 customers across 150+ cities. This is the story of how she pivoted from 'Airbnb for cats' to 'Uber for cat sitting,' survived COVID after raising her seed round just weeks before lockdown, and built a two-sided marketplace while still doing cat sits herself as CEO. She shares hard-won lessons about raising money, building MVPs, managing supply and demand, and why she might never raise a Series A.