Josh Wardle

Creator Of Wordle, Entrepreneur, Silicon Valley Veteran And Inspirational Keynote Speaker. Listed On Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People of 2022"

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Languages Spoken
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Josh Wardle Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
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Languages Spoken
English

Why Josh Wardle?

Creator of the viral sensation Wordle with millions of daily users and sold to the New York Times for seven figures
Named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022

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How you can Do Everything Wrong And Still be Successful

What’s the formula for making a product or service a success? According to major business schools and self-proclaimed business experts, there’s a tried-and-true formula for business success. That’s not always the case. When Wordle came out...

What’s the formula for making a product or service a success? According to major business schools and self-proclaimed business experts, there’s a tried-and-true formula for business success. That’s not always the case. When Wordle came out in 2021, game developers believed a game had to get players addicted and playing as much as they could, every day, to be successful. Josh went the other way—and it worked—brilliantly. Despite doing everything wrong to make a successful game, Wordle became a viral sensation with millions of daily users and was bought by the New York Times. In this talk, Josh shows audiences how the principles of community, authenticity, and simplicity can make a product successful.

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Really Caring About Users And Not Making World Repetitive/Addicting

How do you create a product that people want to use? While working as a product manager for Reddit, Josh created two popular collaborative games, Button and Place, learning what people enjoyed about games. Then in 2021, he created one of the ...

How do you create a product that people want to use? While working as a product manager for Reddit, Josh created two popular collaborative games, Button and Place, learning what people enjoyed about games. Then in 2021, he created one of the most popular games on the internet, Wordle by not making his game repetitive or addicting. In this lively talk, Josh will show that creating great products comes down to doing the things the users want.

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About Keynote Speaker Josh Wardle

Josh Wardle is a technology speaker, artist, accidental entrepreneur, and creator of the viral internet game Wordle. When Josh released Wordle in Oct. 2021, it quickly became a viral sensation. In three months, Wordle went from 90 daily users to 10 million and was featured on Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

In 2022, Josh sold the game to the New York Times for a seven-figure sum and was named to Time magazine’s list of ‘The 100 Most Influential People of 2022.’

Born in South Wales, Josh earned a degree in Media Arts from the University of London and an MFA from the University of Oregon. Before creating Wordle, Josh worked as a product manager at Reddit where he created two popular collaborative games, The Button and Place.

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Josh currently works as a software engineer at the Brooklyn art collective MSCHF (pronounced “mischief”). MSCHF produces a wide range of artworks and products, ranging from browser plugins to sneakers, such as Lil Nas X’s ‘Satan shoes.

Josh isn’t the only achiever in the Wardle family. His brother Tim Wardle directed the 2018 film Three Identical Strangers, which won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Storytelling at Sundance.