eGroups
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eGroups
eGroups.com was an email list management web site. The site allowed
users to create their own mailing lists, and allow others to sign up for
membership on the list. The web site provided archives of the messages as well as list management functionality.
Each group also had a shared calendar, file space, group chat, and a
simple database.
The company originally started by
Scott Hassan in January of 1997 as an email archiving service called FindMail.
Carl Page joined part time in May 1997. In December of 1997, Scott decided to
add the ability to host free mailing lists and called the new product
MakeList.com. Martin Roscheisen joined as CEO in March 1998. Makelist.com
quickly grew to 250,000 users before taking funding of $810K from Atlas Venture
in May 1998. The post-money valuation was set at $4.5M. In June 1998, the
company was renamed to eGroups.com. In October of 1998 with 1.2 million users
(growing at 12,000 users per day), the company had an offer on the table from
Excite for $40M but decided to take $5.1M more investment money from Sequoia
Capital.
In November 1999,
Onelist and
eGroups merged and started work on going public. The combined company was called
eGroups.com with 13 million users exchanging more than 1.3 billion email
messages per month. In January 2000, the company raised another $42M and filed a S1
with the SEC in March 23, 2000.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1105102/0000950149-00-000584.txt
In August 2000
with 18M users, the company was purchased by
Yahoo! for
$432M in a stock deal and became part of
Yahoo! Groups.
http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release588.html
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