Wordle
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Hardiman: NYT acquired Wordle in a matter of weeks
“I mean, the whole thing took place in a matter of weeks, which is way faster than any other acquisition I've been a part of. It was a very amicable process, and we were just super delighted to bring Wordle on board, but it happened in like record speed.”
Hardiman: Wordle had no backend and stored user stats locally
“So when we acquired Wordle, it was a simple web game with no backend. So that meant that people's stats and streaks, which was, you know, like that was the value in terms of like social currency that people were sharing after playing those stats and streaks we…”
Hardiman: Scheduled Wordle answer after Roe v. Wade leak was 'fetus'
“We had this pretty crazy moment a couple months ago right when the Supreme Court's draft ruling on Roe v Wade leaked. And an engineer on the games team happened to notice that the wordle solution the next day was fetus, which is just an extraordinarily bad coi…”
Hardiman: The New York Times did not make Wordle harder
“And what I will say is a lot of people still think we try to make Wordle harder. We don't, I promise. It's not a thing.”
Hardiman: Wordle and Athletic transformed NYT into a multi-category subscription
“Up until I would say this year, we were more of a news brand with a collection of adjacent lifestyle products, but with the acquisition of Wordle and The Athletic, along with just the continued growth of Cooking and Wirecutter and some of our other offerings, …”