18 Facts About Chegg

Chegg, Inc, is an American education technology company based in Santa Clara, California.

Chegg is a combination of the words chicken and egg, and references the founders' catch-22 feeling of being unable to obtain a job without experience, while being unable to acquire experience without a job.

Chegg was incorporated in 2005 by Carlson, Rashid, and Aayush Phumbhra.

Chegg began trading shares publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2013.

In 2014, Chegg entered a partnership with book distributor Ingram Content Group to distribute all of Chegg's physical textbook rentals.

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In September 2018, Chegg announced a data breach had occurred in April 2018 that may have involved 40 million active and inactive registered users.

Chegg reported that social security numbers and bank account information were not affected by the breach.

In June 2021, Chegg unveiled Uversity, a new educational platform that will provide a space for professors and other educators to share content.

In 2010, Chegg made its first acquisition, purchasing CourseRank, which was disabled in 2014.

In 2011, Chegg acquired Zinch, a scholarship search and networking service for high school students and college recruiters, and continues to offer the service, under the Chegg brand name.

Chegg acquired software company 3D3R in late 2011 to develop its digital textbook product, kickstart its mobile product group, and open an engineering office in Rehovot, Israel.

In June 2014 Chegg acquired online tutoring platform InstaEDU, for a reported $30 million, renaming the division Chegg Tutors, and in October 2014 it acquired Internships.

In 2017 Chegg acquired RefME, a free citation management tool available on web, iOS and Android.

Chegg acquired Imagine Easy Solutions, a provider of online bibliography and research tools, for a reported $42 million, in 2016.

In 2018, Chegg acquired WriteLab, which uses AI to analyze text and suggest improvements, and online flash card tool StudyBlue.

Some services offered by Chegg have been repeatedly documented as being problematic.

In February 2019, Chegg formed a partnership with Purdue University's Online Writing Lab, to make online educational writing tools more accessible to its students.

Report published by Citron Research in July 2019 claims that "Chegg has created forums to circumvent Turnitin, proving that Chegg is helping users continue institutionalized cheating".