In the third quarter, they grew 69% over the previous year, to 3.7 million. Subscriptions to Chegg have spiked since nearly every college in the world went virtual.
“The growth of the company is just extraordinary right now,” he said in late October. “I use Chegg to blatantly cheat,” says a senior at the University of Portland.ĭan Rosensweig took over as CEO of Chegg in early 2010, but things have really accelerated during the pandemic. “If I don’t want to learn the material,” says a University of Florida sophomore majoring in finance, “I use Chegg to get the answers.” But the main revenue driver, and the reason students subscribe, is Chegg Study. Chegg offers other services students find useful, including tools to create bibliographies, solve math problems and improve writing. The experts, who work freelance, are online 24/7, supplying step-by-step answers to questions posted by subscribers (sometimes answered in less than 15 minutes). (Matt asked that his real name be withheld because he knows he’s violating his school’s honor code.)Ĭhegg is based in Santa Clara, California, but the heart of its operation is in India, where it employs more than 70,000 experts with advanced math, science, technology and engineering degrees. It takes him seconds to look up answers in Chegg’s database of 46 million textbook and exam problems and turn them in as his own. He means he can use Chegg Study, the $14.95-a-month service he buys from Chegg, a tech company whose stock price has more than tripled during the pandemic. “If I run out of time or I’m having problems on homework or an online quiz,” says Matt, a 19-year-old sophomore at Arizona State, “I can chegg it.” It’s called “chegging.” College students everywhere know what it means.