KitTea plans to bring Silicon Valley the cuddly retreat space it so desperately needs.
When Courtney Hatt came across an article about Japan's cat cafes, she did not, like many of its readers, chuckle about it in a tweet. Because rather than just an amusing piece of trivia about another country, she had found a calling. "I thought, wow, that sounds like a lot of fun," she remembers. "I really want to do that."