Chegg

thumb|Chegg headquarters in Santa Clara Chegg, Inc., is an American educational technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services, powered by artificial intelligence. The company has 6.6 million subscribers. Chegg has been widely criticized for facilitating cheating and academic dishonesty among students.

==History== ===Founding and early growth=== Chegg originated as Cheggpost, a Craigslist-style message board for Iowa State University students launched in October 2000 by Josh Carlson, Mike Seager, and Mark Fiddleke. Carlson teamed with Osman Rashid, an avid user of the site who recognized its potential to disrupt the textbook market, and together with Aayush Phumbhra they incorporated the company in 2005, initially offering scholarship searches, internship matching, and college application advice. That same year, the founders purchased 2,000 textbooks and launched Textbookflix.com, a rental service modeled on Netflix.