Textbook Flicks
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Maples: Chegg verified textbook rental demand using a fake website
“In the early days of Chegg, we put up this fake site called textbook flicks. We didn't have any textbooks to rent. We didn't have enough money to buy textbooks, but we had a fake site and people would try to rent them and they'd get a four or four error. But w…”
Maples: Chegg tested textbook rental pricing up to $75 on fake site
“Chegg was wanting to see if people would do textbook rentals. So they created a fake site called Textbook Flicks. But here's where Osman and Ayush were very savvy rather than just test whether people would rent a hundred dollar textbook for 35 dollars. They te…”