Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Monday that UFC President Dana White will be joining his company’s board of directors, bringing on the prominent Donald Trump backer less than two weeks before the president-elect is set to take office.
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00:00On Monday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that UFC president Dana White will
00:05be joining his company's board of directors, bringing on the prominent Donald Trump backer
00:10less than two weeks before the president-elect is set to take office.
00:15Zuckerberg made the announcement in a Facebook post, saying he admired White, quote, as an
00:19entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand, and that Meta's new board
00:24will help the company capitalize on, quote, massive opportunities ahead in AI, wearables,
00:30and the future of social media.
00:31White, the CEO and president of the UFC, has helped build the popular mixed martial arts
00:36promotion into a billion-dollar business, and has been in closer proximity with Zuckerberg
00:41in the last few years as the billionaire tech chief has taken a public interest in martial
00:46arts and attended several UFC events.
00:49Zuckerberg and White appear to have grown closer since Zuckerberg began attending UFC
00:53events around 2022, becoming more involved in each other's respective businesses since.
00:59That year, Meta announced a partnership with the UFC that brought the UFC streaming video
01:03service to Meta Horizon Worlds, a virtual reality platform.
01:08Zuckerberg also had meetings last year with White about the use of artificial intelligence
01:12on UFC fighter rankings, according to an interview White had with TNT Sports.
01:18Trump himself has attended multiple UFC events and most recently made an appearance at UFC
01:22309 alongside some of his cabinet picks.
01:26For more on this story, read Antonio Piqueno's article linked in the description.