Meeting point
Co-founder and chairman of Meta (known as extremist and banned in Russia), billionaire Mark Zuckerberg ($99 billion according to Forbes), owner of Twitter, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk ‘s (state – $ 230.4 billion) to find the relationship in the war Wrote Edition of The Verge.
Zuckerberg wrote “Send a location (Send me a Location)” on his Instagram stories (the owner of Meta was considered extremist and banned in Russia). Meta’s head posted the post along with a screenshot of Musk’s Twitter post, where the head of the social network spoke to Zuckerberg “for the cage match.”
Thus, the head of Meta quoted former mixed martial arts fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov. He used the phrase “Send me a location” in a shootout with Irish fighter Conor McGregor. Meta spokesperson Iska Saric confirmed to The Verge that Zuckerberg wasn’t kidding.
To the request to send the Address Mask Wrote: “Vegas, Octagon.” Most likely, we are talking about the Octagon MMA arena in Las Vegas (Nevada), where UFC mixed martial arts fights are held.
a competition question
Musk invited Zuckerberg to a cage fight on June 21, 2023. Reason Message The Verge on June 8, according to Meta Product Director Chris Cox presenting to other employees of the company on Twitter a competitor’s project – the Threads app.
It is known that the development of an analogue of social networks began in January 2023, the date of presentation of the project has not yet been announced. According to the post, the new app will use the Instagram account system to automatically fill in user information. As Cox puts it, the company creates a “safe, easy to use, reliable” app.
Musk commented on the news with the words that the launch of the new platform will put humanity “just under the heels of Zuckerberg”. In the comments made under the Twitter CEO’s post, a user warned that the head of Meta is doing jiu-jitsu. Here is Musk and answered: “I’m in favor of the cage match.”
Ranks in the top 1%
According to Musk, he has the “walrus” technique. As the billionaire explained, when executing an element, the warrior simply lays down on the enemy and does nothing. The 51-year-old billionaire previously said he often had to fight because South Africa, where he grew up, was a “dangerous place”. Last year, Twitter’s chairman bragged that he once “could knock down a world sumo champion” at a party, but only hurt his neck in the process, causing “seven years of insane back pain.” Musk also has an advantage over Zuckerberg in terms of height and weight.
The Mask was not noticed in any martial arts passion. Unlike the 39-year-old Zuckerberg. Even in the first half of May to brag First place in an amateur Brazilian jiu-jitsu competition in Silicon Valley. As Zuckerberg has said before, his passion for mixed martial arts emerged during the pandemic.
In early June, the head of Meta announced managed Complete the Murphy Sports Challenge in 39 minutes 58 seconds. The Murphy Challenge is a sporting event in the United States at the end of May each year, on the so-called Memorial Day, dedicated to the memory of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. The participant’s task: Pull up the horizontal bar 100 times, push up from the ground 200 times, crouch 300 times, and then run a mile. All exercises are done in military body armor. Specifically, Zuckerberg used a 20-pound model (about 9kg).
Then, The Guardian newspaper wrote that according to his results, Zuckerberg entered the top 1% of those who participated in the Murphy Challenge.