Mark Zuckerberg encouraged execs to do MMA training with him

Mark Zuckerberg is so dedicated to his mixed martial arts (MMA) training that he invited his senior executives to join him for workout sessions.

This amusing revelation comes from Nick Clegg’s forthcoming book. Meta’s former president of global affairs shares the story in what Fast Company unfavorably describes as a book with “thin prose,” save for some “surprising anecdotes,” such as this tale of Clegg sparring with his deputy Joel Kaplan.

According to Clegg’s anecdote, Zuckerberg gathered some of Meta’s most senior executives to practice MMA with him at a management offsite. Kaplan, who has since taken over Clegg’s role after he stepped down earlier this year, apparently executed a mount that Clegg described as “too close for comfort.”

Judging by some brief research into MMA mounts, this does seem to be an intimate maneuver for a corporate setting.

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