Episode 191
Wordle: Can a Pandemic Phenomenon Sustain in the Long Term?
Cold Call · HBR Presents / Brian Kenny
January 3, 202322m 35s
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Show Notes
Wordle went from a personal game, created by a developer for his girlfriend, to a global phenomenon with two million users in just a few months. Then The New York Times made an unexpected bid to acquire it. But will Wordle outlast other pandemic pastimes?
Harvard Business School senior lecturer Christina Wallace discusses the journey of software engineer and accidental entrepreneur Josh Wardle in the case, “Wordle.”