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Angie Hicks

Angie Hicks

Angie Hicks is the founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Angie’s List, the nation’s leading provider of consumer reviews on local service companies. The company has more than 2 million members (1 million paid households) nationwide and offers consumer reviews in more than 550 categories. Angie is a nationally syndicated consumer columnist who makes regular appearances on national and local television news shows, as well as on Angie’s List television and print advertising. She’s also a wife, mother of three young children and the subject of a Jeopardy! question.

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  • January 30, 2012

    Angie Hicks, Founder & CMO of Angie's List

    I was just about to graduate from DePauw University and hoped to become a (management) consultant when I received the phone call that changed my direction and my life. A mentor of mine, Bill Oesterle, had an idea for a business and he wanted me to launch it for him.

    He was having trouble finding a reliable heating and air conditioning contractor to help with a project in a home he was fixing up in Columbus, Ohio. Bill wasn’t new to home improvement. When he’d lived in Indianapolis and restored a home, he had been a member of Unified Neighbors, an organization that collected information on local contractors. He knew how valuable that insight was to him, and he also knew he wasn’t alone as a homeowner having trouble finding good help.

    He was busy with his day job, of course, but he wanted to expand on the Unified Neighbors model not just to help with his own project, but to meet a need just about every homeowner had.

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