Editing EGroups (section)

==History==
The service was started by [[Scott Hassan]] in 1997 as an email list archiving service called FindMail (mimicking the name "FindLaw", a company co-founded by [[Martin Roscheisen]]). Carl Victor Page Jr., [[Larry Page]]'s brother,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vise |first1=David |last2=Malseed |first2=Mark | title=The Google Story | publisher=[[Delacorte Press]] | date=2005 | chapter=Chapter 8: A Trickle }}</ref> joined the company in May 1997.  When Martin Roscheisen joined as CEO in March 1998, FindMail was incorporated (in June 1998) and shifted its focus towards hosting email groups. FindMail, then renamed ''eGroups'', grew to 250,000 users before taking a [[venture finance]] round of $810,000 from [[Atlas Venture]] in May 1998.  In October 1998, with 1.2 million users (growing at 12,000 users per day), [[Excite (web portal)|Excite]] offered to acquire the company for $40 million, but the company decided instead to take $5.1 million more investment money from [[Sequoia Capital]].
 
In September 1999, eGroups started work on an [[initial public offering]] but instead merged with [[ONElist]], with 13 million users exchanging more than 1.3 billion email messages each month. In January 2000, the company raised $42 million and filed a [[SEC Form S-1|S-1]] with the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]] on March 23, 2000.<ref>{{cite web | title=Company Filing | publisher=Securities and Exchange Commission | url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1105102/0000950149-00-000584.txt | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604161351/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1105102/0000950149-00-000584.txt | archive-date=June 4, 2011 | url-status=live }}</ref>

In August 2000, with 18 million users, the company was bought by [[Yahoo!]] for $432 million in a stock deal and became [[Yahoo! Groups]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Acquisition Enhances Powerful Communication Tools for Consumers | website=Docs.yahoo.com | date=August 31, 2000 | url=http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release588.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609131621/http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release588.html | archive-date=June 9, 2007 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2019, Verizon bought Yahoo! and shut down the ability to upload new files on October 29, 2019, and removed the existence of files in the Groups on January 31, 2020, with mailing lists remaining  available.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/13/verizon-completes-yahoo-acquisition-marissa-mayer-resigns.html|title=Verizon completes its $4.48 billion acquisition of Yahoo; Marissa Mayer leaves with $23 million|last=Kharpal|first=Arjun|date=June 13, 2017|publisher=[[CNBC]]|language=en|access-date=}}</ref>

On October 12, 2020, Yahoo announced it would permanently shut down Yahoo!Groups effective December 15, 2020. After that date, all groups would be deleted and the service would no longer be available.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html?impressions=true | website=Yahoo.com | title=Yahoo Groups to shut down on December 15, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012174306/https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html?impressions=true | archive-date=October 12, 2020 | url-status=dead }}</ref>