Chegg started in October 2000 as a message board for Iowa State University students.
2001–2005[]
The name Chegg is a combination of the words chicken and egg. This references the catch-22 feeling of not being able to get a job without experience and not being able to get experience without a job.
2005–2006[]
BETTER LOGO NEEDED
In 2005, Chegg would become incorporated. The new purpose of Chegg was to disrupt the textbook market, which had "drastically outpaced the rate of inflation".