Final Combating Championship CEO Dana White is becoming a member of forces
with Mark Zuckerberg.
It was introduced on Monday that White — together with Exor CEO John
Elkann and expertise investor Charlie Songhurst — have been
elected to Meta’s board of administrators. One of many largest
info expertise firms within the U.S., Meta owns Fb,
Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, amongst different issues.
“Dana, John, and Charlie will add a depth of experience and
perspective that can assist us sort out the huge alternatives
forward with AI, wearables and the way forward for human connection,” stated
Zuckerberg, who’s the founder and CEO of Meta.
White has lengthy been the frontman of the UFC, each when it was
beforehand owned by Zuffa and now below the TKO Group Holdings
umbrella. He expressed enthusiasm about his new enterprise in a
launch.
“I’ve by no means been inquisitive about becoming a member of a board of administrators till I
received the provide to affix Meta’s board. I’m an enormous believer that
social media and AI are the longer term,” White stated. “I’m very excited
to affix this unimaginable staff and to be taught extra about this enterprise
from the within. There may be nothing I like greater than constructing manufacturers,
and I stay up for serving to take Meta to the subsequent degree.
Zuckerberg is an avid MMA fan, and never way back, there have been briefly
talks of White attempting to place collectively an MMA combat between the Meta
CEO and Tesla founder Elon Musk. That notion was brief lived, however
it’s been nicely documented that Zuckerberg is a constant jiu-jitsu
practitioner — and he has additionally been current at a number of UFC
occasions.
Maybe not coincidentally, White not too long ago talked about the
chance of utilizing AI for UFC rankings after voicing his
displeasure with the choice making of the promotion’s present,
media-based panel.
