Mark Zuckerberg posing with UFC president Dana White throughout a UFC Combat Night time occasion.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s desire for blended martial arts and water sports activities will not be solely a private hazard, it is also a danger to buyers.
In its annual monetary report for 2023 filed Friday, Meta disclosed a brand new danger issue that pertains to Zuckerberg and some other executives engaged in probably harmful hobbies.
“Mr. Zuckerberg and sure different members of administration take part in varied high-risk actions, comparable to fight sports activities, excessive sports activities, and leisure aviation, which carry the danger of great damage and demise,” Meta mentioned. “If Mr. Zuckerberg have been to turn out to be unavailable for any cause, there might be a cloth adversarial influence on our operations.”Â
Zuckerberg — Meta’s founder, CEO and largest shareholder — has a well-documented curiosity in MMA and excessive sports activities comparable to hydrofoiling, a pastime he confirmed off in patriotic vogue.
In November, Zuckerberg revealed that he tore his anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, throughout MMA coaching and had undergone surgical procedure to interchange it.
His preventing pastime additionally made headlines final 12 months as a part of a web-based spat with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The tech executives, two of the world’s 4 richest individuals, have lengthy butted heads on issues associated to synthetic intelligence and are direct rivals now that Musk owns social media platform X.
Zuckerberg and Musk had agreed to take their rivalry into the cage for an MMA match. For varied causes, the struggle was ultimately referred to as off. Every accused the opposite of bailing.
In response to a Morning Brew publish on Threads concerning the new danger components, Zuckerberg posted a GIF stating, “Excessive danger = excessive reward.”
Meta shares soared Friday after the corporate reported a tripling of fourth-quarter revenue and issued its first-ever dividend.
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