Mark Zuckerberg posing with UFC president Dana White throughout a UFC Struggle Night time occasion.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s choice for combined martial arts and water sports activities just isn’t solely a private hazard, it is also a threat to buyers.
In its annual monetary report for 2023 filed Friday, Meta disclosed a brand new threat issue that pertains to Zuckerberg and another executives engaged in doubtlessly harmful hobbies.
“Mr. Zuckerberg and sure different members of administration take part in varied high-risk actions, similar to fight sports activities, excessive sports activities, and leisure aviation, which carry the danger of great harm and dying,” Meta mentioned. “If Mr. Zuckerberg had been to change into unavailable for any motive, there might be a cloth antagonistic influence on our operations.”
Zuckerberg — Meta’s founder, CEO and largest shareholder — has a well-documented curiosity in MMA and excessive sports activities similar to hydrofoiling, a pastime he confirmed off in patriotic style.
In November, Zuckerberg revealed that he tore his anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, throughout MMA coaching and had undergone surgical procedure to switch it.
His preventing passion 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 folks, 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 battle was ultimately known as off. Every accused the opposite of bailing.
In response to a Morning Brew put up on Threads in regards to the new threat components, Zuckerberg posted a GIF stating, “Excessive threat = 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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