As proven above, the Meta CEO has attended a number of UFC fights over the previous few years and shared an image with White on Instagram in February, as famous by Bloomberg, and White was mediating the proposed Zuckerberg vs. Musk cage match at one level. White additionally has a personal relationship with President-elect Donald Trump, who Zuckerberg met with at his Mar-a-Lago resort after Trump threatened “if [Zuckerberg] does something unlawful this time he’ll spend the remainder of his life in jail—as will others who cheat within the 2024 Presidential Election” in a book launched final September.
In a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned of White, “I’ve admired him as an entrepreneur and his capability to construct such a beloved model.”
White maintained management of that model after a New 12 months’s Eve incident two years in the past the place he was captured on digicam slapping his spouse in a nightclub, as reported by The Athletic. Afterward, White mentioned, “There’s no protection for this and folks shouldn’t be defending me over this factor it doesn’t matter what… I’ve to stroll round for nevertheless lengthy I dwell — 10.4 years or one other 25 years — and that is how I’m labeled now.”
John Elkann, CEO of European funding firm Exor (which has stakes in firms like Ferrari and Stellantis), and Charlie Songhurst, a know-how investor and former Microsoft govt, shall be becoming a member of Meta’s board as properly.
Meta now has 13 individuals on its board. “We have now large alternatives forward in AI, wearables, and the way forward for social media, and our board will assist us obtain our imaginative and prescient,” Zuckerberg says.
