The Platform Fixing Pet Adoption

Issue #277

December 8th 2025

Quick Hits:

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This week, I sat down with Chloé Fabiani, the co-founder & CEO of Paaw — the platform quietly transforming pet adoption across Europe and now the U.S. In under three years, she’s built one of the largest adoption networks in the world, connected thousands of shelters, and redesigned a process that was fundamentally broken. We discussed scale, speed, trust, and what it takes to modernize one of the most emotionally charged journeys in the pet industry.