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Netflix should have bought Wordle, says CEO Reed Hastings.

Netflix’s move into gaming is less about upselling things like weapons and gear and more about engagement, Reed Hastings told Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NYT DealBook conference. What would have been the perfect game for that?

I berated our M&A team that we didn’t buy Wordle, that would have been perfect for us.

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