Mark Zuckerberg had Dana White as a possible Meta board member for fairly a while.
The Meta CEO, and big UFC fan, not too long ago introduced that White was becoming a member of the board earlier this month. Whereas showing as a visitor on The Joe Rogan Experience, Zuckerberg defined the way it was a straightforward resolution to place White in that place.
“Oh, he’s superior, I’ve been speaking to him for some time about that,” Zuckerberg stated. “Speak about a tremendous entrepreneur. … It’s like, who’re the individuals I would like [on the board]? I simply need the most effective entrepreneurs and individuals who have created various things.
“Dana’s like this man who principally took the game from being considered as this beautiful marginal factor when he acquired began. John McCain was attempting to outlaw it, and now it’s like… I feel it and F-1 are the quickest rising sports activities on the planet. It’s acquired tons of of hundreds of thousands of individuals viewing it.”
White and Zuckerberg have had an awesome relationship for years, and the latter has attended a number of UFC occasions — together with strolling out Alexander Volkanovski forward of his UFC 298 title protection in opposition to Ilia Topuria this previous February.
Seeing what White has constructed over time with the UFC, turning it into the model that it’s immediately, Zuckerberg admits he wanted any individual with White’s gusto and angle to go to bat for the corporate if want be.
“What Dana’s executed with the UFC is like one of the legendary enterprise tales and the model is beloved,” Zuckerberg stated. “I feel he’s a world-class entrepreneur and he’s acquired a powerful spine. I feel a part of the dialog I had with him round becoming a member of our board was, OK, we’ve got a variety of governments and people around the globe placing a variety of stress on our firm, and we’d like some robust people who find themselves going to principally assist advise us on methods to deal with a few of these conditions.
“Operating this firm isn’t for the faint of coronary heart. There’s positively a variety of stress from all these totally different governments. … I simply need to spend my time constructing issues. However, yeah, I feel Dana’s going to be nice.”
