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Co-founder of Angie's List
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Angie Hicks was born in Fort Wayne on May 2, 1974, and grew up in the city. She graduated from DePauw University with a degree in economics in 1995 and, with Columbus venture capitalist Bill Oesterle, started a home-services referral business in Columbus, Ohio, that year; she signed up its first thousand members door-to-door herself. In 1996 the company took her name — Angie's List. She earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2000, took the company public in 2011, and stayed with it through its acquisition by IAC in 2017 and its merger with HomeAdvisor into ANGI Homeservices; the brand was shortened to Angi in 2021, and Hicks has served as its chief customer officer.
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Sources: Smart Business magazine (profile, sbnonline.com: "Born: Ft. Wayne, Ind."); the company's public-offering and acquisition record, 2011–2021.