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Campus Special hit $15M revenue with around 40 employees before selling

Cho Nguyen · 740: He's Helped 20,000 Land a Job, $4m Raised, $200k MRR · Aug 3, 2017 · at 2:46

Hirewire founder Cho Nguyen discusses the scale and financial metrics of his previous company, Campus Special, when it was acquired.

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“We're doing about fifteen million in revenue. And employee headcount in the forties.”

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The claim, plainly

Campus Special was generating about $15 million in revenue with an employee headcount in the 40s the year it was sold.

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Assessment

Campus Special was a privately held company until its acquisition by Chegg, Inc. in April 2014 for approximately $16 million to $17 million in cash and stock. Chegg did not disclose Campus Special's standalone annual revenue or pro forma financial results in its SEC Form 10-K filings, citing lack of materiality, and did not publish standalone permanent full-time employee counts for the subsidiary. Because Campus Special's operations were wound down shortly after acquisition and private internal operating metrics were never disclosed in public filings or independent audited records, the exact revenue and permanent headcount figures for 2014 cannot be verified from public records.

Chegg, Inc. Form 10-K for FY 2014 (Note 6, Acquisitions) omitted pro forma results of operations for Campus Special because the financial impact was not material.
Chegg's April 17, 2014 acquisition press release and subsequent 2014 SEC filings did not disclose Campus Special's full-time employee headcount (only noting 750 seasonal summer interns).
Chegg recognized an impairment charge of $1.6 million against Campus Special's acquired intangible assets in Q4 2014 and shut down the print coupon business later that year.

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[1] sec.gov [2] sec.gov [3] prnewswire.com [4] sec.gov [5] chegg.com [6] edgar-online.com [7] vintagemodern.co [8] forbes.com

"Campus Special" "pro forma" site:sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1364954 "Campus Special" acquired acquisition revenue headcount "Campus Special" Chegg acquisition 10-K OR 10-Q OR 8-K OR press release "Campus Special" "Inc." 2013 OR 2012 OR 2014 revenue "Duluth" OR "Atlanta"

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