New York Times executive David Perpich woke up one morning last year and read a story about Wordle, the addictive word-puzzle game. He fired off a Slack message around 6:30 a.m. to a colleague who oversees the company’s games unit.
“We’ve gotta go buy this thing,” Perpich wrote. The Times did precisely that a few weeks later.
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