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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Cage Match’ might not be a joke

by | Jul 18, 2023 | World News | 0 comments

Billionaire techies Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk first hinted last month that they were interested in  UFC-style cage fighting – a seemingly absurd idea that was largely laughed off as a pointless joke – but tensions between the two are rising and photos of them training. with the best fighters in the world, it is proven that the battle of the billionaires can indeed become a reality. Musk, the world’s richest man, who bought Twitter last October, didn’t hold back from leading the charge at Threads. Zuckerberg himself is not exactly afraid to promote the South African entrepreneur; Hours after posting the threads, he returned to Twitter for the first time in nearly 11 years and posted an untitled meme featuring Spider-Man’s famous face, which many saw as a jab at  Tesla and SpaceX. Director of OPERATIONS.

 

Mark Zuckerberg has a hobby to share with Elon Musk

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is said to have a new hobby. And by the way, he shares it with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT maker OpenAl. Zuckerberg, the founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook parent Meta, was certified as a student pilot earlier this year, according to a report in The Information magazine. The report cites information from the Federal Aviation Administration. Pilots who participated in the “billionaire summer camp” include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who received a plot permit back in 2010, helicopter pilot and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who once flew solo. Miami to Havana in a four-seater. Even Zuckerberg’s potential jujitsu nemesis, Elon Musk, is a licensed pilot, the report said. By the way, flying is not the only extreme hobby that Zuckerberg has engaged in recently. The founder of the world’s largest social network trained in jiu-jitsu and MMA  and said he turned to exercise to “reset”  his body.

Threads Cross over 150 million users Rank

Facebook recently launched its Twitter competitor, Threads. Threads is Meta’s standalone Twitter competitor based on Instagram’s account system. According to Instagram CEO Adam Mosser, Twitter’s “volatility” and “unpredictability” under Musk opened up the competition. In an interview, Mosseri said that Threads are for “public conversations”. The App Threads has now crossed the 150 million user mark, the fastest app in history. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is said to have a new hobby. And by the way, he shares it with Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT maker OpenAl. Zuckerberg, the founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook parent Meta, received a pilot student certificate earlier this year, according to a report by The Information. The report cites data from the Federal Aviation Administration. Pilots who participated in the “Summer Camp of Millions” include OpenAl CE Sam Altman, who got his pilot’s license back in 2010, helicopter pilot and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel, and Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who once flew solo from Miami to Havana. Even Zuckerberg’s jujitsu nemesis, Elon Musk, is a licensed pilot,” the report said. By the way, flying is not the only extreme hobby that Zuckerberg has engaged in recently. The founder of the world’s largest social network trained in jiu-jitsu and MMA  and said he turned to the exercises to “restore” his body.

Does Mark Zuckerberg give up on threads?

Zuckerberg hasn’t used Threads in six days, according to a screenshot shared by a Twitter user. A Twitter-like application is a creation of meta-platforms. In the recent development of the “competition” Elon Musk against Mark Zuckerberg, the former suggested that his fellow billionaire does not care about Threads, the biggest challenges of Twitter for years, and the creation of  Meta Platforms led by Zuckerberg. Tech titans Zuckerberg and Musk have a fierce business rivalry that has even spilt over into the playground. (AFP) “Looks like he doesn’t care about his new product,” Musk tweeted in response to a Twitter user’s post with a screenshot of Zuckerberg’s Threads profile; the screenshot showed that the Meta CEO made his last message from the platform up to six days ago. Musk responded to this  Twitter user’s post. “It’s now been six days since the CEO of this other program wrote this. Has he quit yet?” tweeted the user on Twitter.

However, Threads, released on July 5,  is the fastest social media app to cross the  100 million user milestone, beating OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Created by the Meta Instagram team, it reached the mark within five days of its release.

Zuckerberg and Musk Background Fight

Amid the banter surrounding Musk and Zuckerberg’s battles, tensions between them have grown since the launch of Instagram’s Threads platform. Twitter’s direct competitor launched on July 5th and reached its first 100 million users on July 10th. On the same day, Musk called Zuckerberg a “discipline” on Twitter and proposed an “egg-measuring contest” with him. Twitter’s lawyer accused and threatened to sue Meta for misappropriating Twitter’s “trade secrets and other intellectual property” and hiring former Twitter employees to develop Threads, calling it a “copycat program” of Twitter. 160. This is the hypothetical line that DraftKings has placed on Zuckerberg to win the game, making him the betting favourite, with bettors having to bet $160 on Zuckerberg to win $100. DraftKings pegged Musk at an upset of 140, meaning a $100 bet would yield $140 in profit. The sports betting company blamed the lines on the younger age of Zuckerberg and his almost constant physical activity. A cage match between tech CEOs may have some parameters to account for their size difference. Separately, Musk told White that he wouldn’t want to “die” for a potential match. Musk, 52, is about 6’1″ tall and explained on Twitter that he hardly ever works out. Zuckerberg, 39, is 5’7” and regularly participates in physical training and competitions. He recently won two medals in his first jiu-jitsu tournament in May, although he also choked in one of his fights, according to the New York Times. (Zuckerberg denied the claim). Zuckerberg also seems to be more of a fight fan, as he and his wife Priscilla Chan appeared on a UFC fight card last October.

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