•	Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.  Yes ¨ No x

•	Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨ No x

•	Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No ¨

•	Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes x No ¨

•	Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§ 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. ¨

•	Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one)

•	If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

•	Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes  ¨ No  x

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The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of June 30, 2017, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, based upon the closing price of such stock on such date as reported by the New York Stock Exchange on such date, was approximately $1,009,536,032. Shares of Common Stock held by each executive officer and director have been excluded in that such persons may be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.

•	As of January 31, 2018, the Registrant had 109,962,798 outstanding shares of Common Stock.

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	Regulations related to the Program Participation Agreement of the U.S. Department of Education and other similar laws and regulate the recruitment of students to colleges and other institutions of higher learning.

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•	execute on our relatively new and evolving business model;

•	develop new products and services, both independently and with developers or other third parties;

•	attract and retain students and increase their engagement with our learning platform and our mobile applications;

•	attract and retain brands, colleges, universities and other academic institutions to our marketing services;

•	manage the growth of our business, including increasing or unforeseen expenses;

•	develop and scale a high performance technology infrastructure to efficiently handle increased usage by students, especially during peak periods prior to each academic term;

•	maintain and manage relationships with strategic partners, including Ingram, NRCCUA, and other distributors, publishers, wholesalers, colleges and brands;

•	develop a profitable business model and pricing strategy;

•	compete with companies that offer similar services or products;

•	expand into adjacent markets;

•	navigate the ongoing evolution and uncertain application of regulatory requirements, such as privacy laws, to our business, including our new products and services;

•	integrate and realize synergies from businesses that we acquire; and

•	expand into foreign markets.

•	our ability to attract and retain students and increase their engagement with our learning platform and mobile applications, particularly related to our Chegg Services subscribers;

•	the rate of adoption of our offerings;

•	our ability to successfully utilize the information gathered from our learning platform to enhance our Student Graph and target sales of complementary products and services to our students;

•	changes in demand and pricing for print textbooks and eTextbooks; Ingram's ability to manage fulfillment processes to handle significant volumes during peak periods and as a result of the potential growth in volume of transactions over time; changes by our competitors to their product and service offerings;

•	price competition and our ability to react appropriately to such competition;

•	our ability and Ingram's ability to manage their textbook library;

•	our ability to execute on our strategic partnership with Ingram;

•	disruptions to our internal computer systems and our fulfillment information technology infrastructure, particularly during peak periods; the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures relating to expansion of our business, operations and infrastructure;

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•	our ability to successfully manage the integration of operations, technology and personnel resulting from our acquisitions;

•	governmental regulation in particular regarding privacy and advertising and taxation policies; and

•	general macroeconomic conditions and economic conditions specific to higher education.

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•	require us to incur charges and substantial debt or liabilities;

•	cause adverse tax consequences, substantial depreciation or deferred compensation charges;

•	result in acquired in-process research and development expenses or in the future may require the amortization, write-down or impairment of amounts related to deferred compensation, goodwill and other intangible assets; and

•	give rise to various litigation risks, including the increased likelihood of litigation.

•	we may not generate sufficient financial return to offset acquisition costs;

•	we may encounter difficulties or unforeseen expenditures in integrating the business, technologies, products, services, operations and personnel of any company that we acquire, particularly if key personnel of the acquired company decide not to work for us;

•	an acquisition may disrupt our ongoing business, divert resources, increase our expenses and distract our management;

•	an acquisition may delay adoption rates or reduce engagement rates for our products and services and those of the company acquired by us due to student uncertainty about continuity and effectiveness of service from either company;

•	we may encounter difficulties in, or may be unable to, successfully sell or otherwise monetize any acquired products and services;

•	an acquisition may not ultimately be complementary to our evolving business model; and

•	an acquisition may involve the entry into geographic or business markets in which we have little or no prior experience.

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•	our ability to engage high school students with our Chegg Writing, Chegg Tutors, Chegg Test Prep and College Admissions and Scholarship Services;

•	our ability to produce compelling supplemental materials and services for students to improve their outcomes throughout their educational journey;

•	our ability to produce engaging mobile applications and websites for students to engage with our learning platform;

•	our ability and Ingram's ability to consistently provide students with a convenient, high quality experience for selecting, receiving and returning print textbooks;

•	our ability and Ingram's ability to accurately forecast and respond to student demand for print textbooks;

•	the pricing of our physical textbooks and eTextbooks for rental or sale in relation to other alternatives, including the prices offered by publishers or by other competing textbook rental providers;

•	the quality and prices of our offerings compared to those of our competitors;

•	the rate of adoption of eTextbooks and our ability to capture a significant share of that market;

•	changes in student spending levels;

•	changes in the number of students attending college;

•	the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts; and

•	our ability to introduce new products and services that are favorably received by students.

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•	maintain our reputation as a trusted source of content, services and textbooks for students;

•	maintain the quality of and improve our existing products, services and technologies;

•	maintain and control the quality of our brand while Ingram handles our textbook fulfillment logistics;

•	introduce products and services that are favorably received;

•	adapt to changing technologies, including developing and enhancing compelling mobile offerings for our learning platform;

•	adapt to students’ rapidly changing tastes, preferences, behavior and brand loyalties;

•	protect our students’ data, such as passwords and personally identifiable information;

•	protect our trademark and other intellectual property rights;

•	continue to expand our reach to students in high school, graduate school and internationally;

•	ensure that the content posted to our website by students is reliable and does not infringe on third-party copyrights or violate other applicable laws, our terms of use or the ethical codes of those students’ colleges;

•	adequately address students’ concerns with our products and services; and

•	convert and fully integrate the brands and students that we acquire, including Math 42, Imagine Easy Solutions and internships.com, into the Chegg brand and Chegg.com.

•	changes in student sentiment about the quality or usefulness of our learning platform and our products and services;

•	problems that prevent Ingram from delivering textbooks reliably or timely;

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•	technical or other problems that prevent us from providing our products and services reliably or otherwise negatively affect the student experience on our website or our mobile application;

•	concern from colleges about the ways students use our content offerings, such as our Expert Answers service;

•	brand conflict between acquired brands and the Chegg brand;

•	student concerns related to privacy and the way in which we use student data as part of our products and services;

•	the reputation or products and services of competitive companies; and

•	students’ misuse of our products and services in ways that violate our terms of services, applicable laws or the code of conduct at their colleges.

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Products and Services for Students. Our Chegg Services face competition from different businesses depending on the offering. For Chegg Study, our competitors primarily include publishers that provide study materials and online instructional systems. Additionally, we face competition from free services such as Yahoo! Answers and Brain.ly for our Expert Answers service. For our Chegg Writing service, we primarily face competition from other citation generating services such as Noodle Tools. For our Chegg Tutors services, we face competition from other online tutoring services such as Wyzant, Tutors.com and Varsity Tutors. The market for textbooks and supplemental materials is intensely competitive and subject to rapid change. We face competition from college bookstores, some of which are operated by Follett and Barnes & Noble Education, online marketplaces such as Amazon.com and providers of eTextbooks such as Apple iTunes and Blackboard, as well as various private textbook rental websites. Many students purchase from multiple textbook providers, are highly price sensitive and can easily shift spending from one provider or format to another. As a consequence, our Required Materials product line, which includes eTextbooks, competes primarily on price and further on selection and functionality and compatibility of the eTextbook Reader we utilize across a wide variety of desktop and mobile devices.

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Brand Advertising. With respect to brands, we compete with online and offline outlets that generate revenues from advertisers and marketers, especially those that target high school and college students. In this area, we seek to partner with brands that have offerings that will interest or delight students and have received very positive comments and feedback from students on these offerings. We provide these brands with preferential access to our audience, which we believe represents a highly engaged portion of the target demographic of our brand partners.

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•	compete for advertising and marketing dollars from colleges, brands, online marketing and media companies and advertisers;

•	penetrate the market for student-focused advertising;

•	develop a platform that can deliver advertising and marketing services across multiple channels, including print, email, Internet, mobile applications and other connected devices;

•	improve our analytics and measurement solutions to demonstrate the value of our advertising and marketing services;

•	maintain the retention, growth and engagement of our student user base;

•	strengthen our brand and increase our presence in media reports and with publicity companies that utilize online platforms for advertising and marketing purposes;

•	create new products that sustain or increase the value of our advertising and marketing services and other commercial content;

•	manage changes in the way online advertising and marketing services are priced;

•	weather the impact of macroeconomic conditions and conditions in the advertising industry and higher education in general; and

•	manage legal developments relating to data privacy, advertising or marketing services, legislation and regulation and litigation.

•	the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and similar laws adopted by a number of states regulate unsolicited commercial emails, create criminal penalties for emails containing fraudulent headers and control other abusive online marketing practices;

•	the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has guidelines that impose responsibilities on companies with respect to communications with consumers and impose fines and liability for failure to comply with rules with respect to advertising or marketing practices they may deem misleading or deceptive; and

•	the TCPA restricts telemarketing and the use of automated telephone equipment. The TCPA limits the use of automatic dialing systems, artificial or prerecorded voice messages and SMS text messages. It also applies to unsolicited text messages advertising the commercial availability of goods or services. Additionally, a number of

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•	our intellectual property and proprietary rights will provide competitive advantages to us;

•	our competitors or others will not design around our intellectual property or proprietary rights;

•	our ability to assert our intellectual property or proprietary rights against potential competitors or to settle current or future disputes will not be limited by our agreements with third parties;

•	our intellectual property and proprietary rights will be enforced in jurisdictions where competition may be intense or where legal protection may be weak;

•	any of the patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets or other intellectual property or proprietary rights that we presently employ in our business will not lapse or be invalidated, circumvented, challenged or abandoned; or

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•	we will not lose the ability to assert our intellectual property or proprietary rights against or to license our intellectual property or proprietary rights to others and collect royalties or other payments.

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•	recruiting and retaining talented and capable employees in foreign countries and maintaining our company culture across all of our offices;

•	compliance with applicable foreign laws and regulations;

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•	compliance with anti-bribery laws including, without limitation, compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act;

•	currency exchange rate fluctuations;

•	additional taxation of international costs and intercompany payments to our international subsidiaries associated with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017;

•	political and economic instability; and

•	higher costs of doing business internationally.

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•	borrow money and guarantee or provide other support for indebtedness of third-parties;

•	pay dividends on, redeem or repurchase our capital stock;

•	acquire entities or assets;

•	make investments in entities that we do not control, including joint ventures;

•	consummate a merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets;

•	enter into certain asset sale transactions; and

•	enter into secured financing arrangements;

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•	actual or anticipated fluctuations in our financial condition and operating results, including as a result of the seasonality in our business that results from the academic calendar;

•	our announcement of actual results for a fiscal period that are higher or lower than projected results or our announcement of revenues or earnings guidance that is higher or lower than expected, including as a result of difficulty forecasting seasonal variations in our financial condition and operating results or the revenues generated by our offerings;

•	issuance of new or updated research or reports by securities analysts, including the publication of unfavorable reports or change in recommendation or downgrading of our common stock;

•	announcements by us or our competitors of significant products or features, technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic relationships and partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;

•	actual or anticipated changes in our growth rate relative to our competitors;

•	changes in the economic performance or market valuations of companies perceived by investors to be comparable to us;

•	the expiration of market standoff or contractual lock-up agreements and future sales of our common stock by our officers, directors and existing stockholders or the anticipation of such sales;

•	issuances of additional shares of our common stock in connection with acquisitions;

•	share price and volume fluctuations attributable to inconsistent trading volume levels of our shares;

•	lawsuits threatened or filed against us;

•	regulatory developments in our target markets affecting us, students, colleges or brands, publishers or our competitors;

•	political climate in the United States, with a focus on cutting or limiting budgets, higher education and taxation;

•	terrorist attacks or natural disasters or other such events impacting countries where we have operations;

•	international stock market conditions; and

•	general economic and market conditions, such as recessions, unemployment rates, the limited availability of consumer credit, interest rate changes and currency fluctuations.

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•	our board of directors is classified into three classes of directors with staggered three-year terms and directors can only be removed from office for cause and by the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of our outstanding common stock;

•	subject to certain limitations, our board of directors has the sole right to set the number of directors and to fill a vacancy resulting from any cause or created by the expansion of our board of directors, which prevents stockholders from being able to fill vacancies on our board of directors;

•	only our board of directors is authorized to call a special meeting of stockholders;

•	certain litigation against us can only be brought in Delaware;

•	our restated certificate of incorporation authorizes undesignated preferred stock, the terms of which may be established and shares of which may be issued, without the approval of the holders of common stock;

•	advance notice procedures apply for stockholders to nominate candidates for election as directors or to bring matters before an annual meeting of stockholders;

•	our stockholders cannot act by written consent;

•	our restated bylaws can only be amended by our board of directors or by the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of our outstanding common stock; and

•	certain provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation can only be amended by the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of our outstanding common stock.

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(a)	Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

(b)	Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

(c)	Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

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