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by CobrastanJorji 831 days ago
Meanwhile every actually interesting thing Reddit the company has done in my memory seems to link back to Josh Wardle, who came up with the "The Button" event and also the "Place" event, then left and created Wordle, then sold it to the New York Times for millions. They should just redirect 5% of their R&D funds to getting that guy back and letting him do whatever he wants.

Or maybe keep trying to get in on the NFT craze and working to carefully ensure third party apps can't work with Reddit. That's also a choice.

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Dang, didn't know he did all that pre-Wordle. I'd ask why game studios aren't eating him up, but he's probably set for life by now. Wonder what's on the horizons for him.
Apparently he joined "MSCHF." They describe themselves as "AN ART COLLECTIVE THAT ENGAGES ART, FASHION, TECH, AND CAPITALISM." Their products run from tech startup failure collectibles (get your mini Juicero and a mini Theranos Minilab today!), to oil paintings of ML feet, to a celebrity's iPhone full of the phone numbers of other celebrities (locked, password not included).

Sounds like an interesting place to work.