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Meetup history
Meetup company history timeline
Meetup was founded in June 2002 by Scott Heiferman and five co-founders.
Meetup started charging a fee to group organizers in early 2005.
In 2009, Meetup started running hackathons, where employees came up with new features that would be implemented if their coworkers supported it.
The website was redesigned in 2013.
In 2013, Meetup acquired a struggling email collaboration company called Dispatch.
In 2014, a hacker shut down Meetup with a DDoS attack, the hacker claimed to be funded by a competitor.
In 2017, Meetup created 1,000 #resist Meetup groups in response to the Trump travel ban.
Meetup was acquired by WeWork in late 2017 for about $156 million.
In 2018, Scott Heiferman stepped down as CEO and former Investopedia CEO David Siegel took his place.
In October 2019, Meetup began to test a different pricing model in two US states, reducing the costs that must be paid by organizers of $23.99/month or $98.94/six months, but requiring users to pay a $2 fee in order to RSVP for events leaving several users angry.
In March 2020, WeWork sold Meetup to AlleyCorp and other investors, reportedly at a substantial loss.
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