Dana White, CEO of Final Preventing Championship (UFC) and ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has joined the board of administrators for Meta, the dad or mum firm of Fb.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the inclusion of Dana White in a Fb put up on Monday, hailing his work as an entrepreneur and enterprise chief.
“Dana is the President and CEO of UFC, and he has constructed it into some of the invaluable, quickest rising, and hottest sports activities enterprises on the earth. I’ve admired him as an entrepreneur and his potential to construct such a beloved model,” famous Zuckerberg.
Additionally added to the board of administrators have been John Elkann, the CEO of Italian holding firm Exor, and Charlie Songhurst, former Microsoft head of company technique.
As famous by NBC Information, Zuckerberg has been “working towards combined martial arts lately and has attended a number of UFC occasions, underscoring his enthusiasm for the fight sport.”
“In 2023, Zuckerberg tore his ACL throughout a sparring session as a part of coaching for a aggressive MMA battle. That 12 months, Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk traded verbal barbs and indicated that they have been keen to battle one another in a match that White would assist produce. However Zuckerberg later stated the battle was off as a result of Musk wasn’t ‘severe,’” it added.
Zuckerberg’s inclusion of Dana White comes weeks after the Meta CEO met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The dinner additionally got here simply months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination try.
“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his want to be a supporter of and a participant on this change that we’re seeing throughout America, all around the globe with this reform motion that Donald Trump is main,” Trump adviser Stephen Miller stated to visitor host Brian Kilmeade on The Ingraham Angle with Fox Information.
Mark Zuckerberg, like so many enterprise leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity,” added Miller.
Miller famous that Zuckerberg “has his personal pursuits” whereas emphasizing that the co-founder of Fb sees the second Trump time period as a time for “nationwide renewal.”
“Mark, clearly, he has his personal pursuits, and he has his personal firm, and he has his personal agenda,” Miller stated. “However he’s made clear that he needs to help the nationwide renewal of America beneath President Trump’s management.”
Whereas Zuckerberg issued no endorsement in the course of the 2024 presidential election, he spoke kindly of the president-elect following the July 13 assassination try on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Seeing Donald Trump stand up after getting shot within the face and pump his fist within the air with the American flag is without doubt one of the most bada- issues I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg advised Bloomberg on the time.
“On some stage as an American, it’s like arduous to not get form of emotional about that spirit and that battle, and I believe that that’s why lots of people just like the man,” he added.
Trump beforehand signaled that he and Mark Zuckerberg have been on friendlier phrases for the reason that assassination try.
“So, Mark Zuckerberg referred to as me. To begin with, he referred to as me two occasions. He referred to as me after the occasion and he stated that was actually superb,” he advised Maria Bartiromo of Fox Enterprise in August. “And he truly introduced that he’s not going to help a Democrat as a result of he can’t as a result of he revered me for what I did that day. I believe what I did … to me, was a standard response.”
Trump even stated that Zuckerberg apologized to him with out specifying, probably referring to Fb banning his account following the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.
“He truly apologized. He stated they made a mistake … they usually’re correcting the error,” Trump stated.
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