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Magoosh company history timeline

2009

In June 2009, Magoosh released its first product—GMAT math practice questions with video explanations.

Magoosh was founded in 2009 by Hansoo Lee, Bhavin Parikh, Pejman Pour-Moezzi and Vikram Shenoy while they were students at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

2010

Pejman stepped away from the business in 2010 to pursue other opportunities but remained on the board.

2011

Hansoo and Bhavin hired two full-time employees and, with them on board, developed a new prep program for the GRE. In August 2011, Magoosh launched their 'New GRE' product for the revised GRE and later renamed it 'Magoosh GRE' once the reformatted GRE became standard.

In December 2011, Magoosh gave away 800 free SAT accounts to high school students through partnerships with Bay Area non-profit organizations.

2013

In March 2013, shortly after Magoosh hit profitability, Hansoo Lee died of cancer at the age of 35.

2015

In 2015, it launched full prep programs for the ACT, LSAT and Praxis exams.

2016

And in 2016, the company launched a full MCAT product.

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Founded
2009
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Berkeley, CA
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Hansoo Lee,Bhavin Parikh,Pejman Pour-Moezzi,Vikram Shenoy
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