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Chegg, Inc., is an American education technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services. [2] The company was launched in 2006, and began trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2013.
Student of Fortune was a United States–based company that provided an online tutoring marketplace. [1] [2] The company was founded by Sean McCleese in 2006, shortly after graduating from Occidental College. [3] In an interview with The Daily Trojan, McCleese described the way the company's site operated as being similar to eBay. [3]
Chegg Tutors was founded in 2011 as InstaEDU and launched into public beta in May 2012. At that time, the company also announced that it had raised $1.1M in venture capital funding from The Social+Capital Partnership. [2] Two of the company's co-founders had previously run an in-home tutoring company called Cardinal Scholars.
The education technology company Chegg, which was a website dedicated to helping students with assignments using a database of collected worksheets and assignments, became one of the most prominent business victims to ChatGPT, with its stock price nearly being cut in half after a quarterly earnings call in May 2023. [16] [17]
Course Hero was founded by Andrew Grauer at Cornell University in 2006 for college students to share lectures, class notes, exams and assignments. [4] In November 2014, the company raised $15 million in Series A Funding, with investors that included GSV Capital and IDG Capital. Seed investors SV Angel and Maveron also participated. [5]
Acquired by Chegg Cramster.com was an educational technology website that provided online homework and textbook help for college and high school students in areas such as math , science , engineering , humanities , business , and writing. [ 1 ]
Chegg expanded from textbook rental into a portfolio of student services under his leadership, [2] [8] transforming Chegg's digital assets to meet student needs. In June 2024, Rosensweig stepped down as CEO of Chegg, and was succeeded by Nathan Schultz. [11] Rosensweig is a proponent of mentoring, [12] and of workplace equality. [13]
Osman Rashid (born 1970) is a Pakistani American businessman in Silicon Valley, California. He has worked in enterprise software and consumer products. He was co-founder and CEO of three companies, an online textbook rental and student hub Chegg, remaining involved in it until early 2010 after growing the company from its inception in 2005. [1]