Angie's List: Angie Hicks (2016)

If you ever try to get people to buy something, by you know going door to door. You know that this can be demoralizing, it can be utterly exhausting, but this is exactly how Angie Hicks first tried to get her business off the ground back in 1995. And back then she was lucky to get like

Two takers a day. But of course, over the years, Angie's list grew to millions of members and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. And the company's story has changed a little bit since we first ran this episode back in 2016, so we'll update you at the end, but for now. Enjoy. People started calling you, and you are the only person manning the phones? Literally in like a hundred square foot office space. Like we didn't have a phone system, we had a phone. And so when we needed a second line, we got a second phone.

So there I I do remember times where I'd be like sitting on the floor in the office, literally like toggling between two physical phones with no hold button. From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. Guy Raz and on today's show how Angie's List grew from that one hundred square foot office. to a massive home services referral brand.

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