{"id":7929,"date":"2024-09-20T17:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2024-09-20T17:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:31:20","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-stuns-fans-with-his-surprising-reaction-after-7-year-old-daughter-august-says-she-wants-to-be-taylor-swift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=7929","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg Stuns Fans with His Surprising Reaction After 7-Year-Old Daughter August Says She Wants to Be Taylor Swift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0has revealed he shut down his seven-year-old daughter when she told him she wants to grow up to be like\u00a0Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Meta\u00a0CEO told the Acquired podcast that following in the popstar\u2019s footsteps is \u2018not available\u2019 to his middle child August Chan Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-three made the remarks as part of a wider point he was making on the importance of originality and authenticity in the tech sphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018One day, my daughter. We took her to a Taylor Swift concert and she was like, \u2018You know Dad, I kind of want to be like Taylor Swift when I grow up\u2019,\u2019 Zuckerberg told podcast hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I was like, \u201cBut you can\u2019t. That\u2019s not available to you\u201d,\u2019 he continued.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/09\/18\/23\/89841985-13866275-image-a-3_1726696976521.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Zuckerberg has revealed he shut down his seven-year-old daughter August when she told him she wants to grow up to be like Taylor Swift. Pictured: Zuckerberg with his wife and three daughters\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018She thought about it and she\u2019s like, \u201cAlright when I grow up I want people to want to be like August Chan Zuckerberg\u201d. And I was like, \u201cHell yeah. Hell yeah\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg, 40, has been a longtime fan of fellow billionaire Swift, 34.<\/p>\n<p>He posted about attending her Eras Tour in Santa Clara in July last year, along with his wife Priscilla and their daughters.<\/p>\n<p>He shared a photo of himself decked out in the kind of face gems and friendship bracelets which became synonymous with the tour.<\/p>\n<p>He posted the picture along with the caption, \u2018Life of a girl dad\u2019, followed by another of him checking emails on the way to the event.<\/p>\n<p>The couple share three daughters: Maxima, eight, August and Aurelia, 13 months.<\/p>\n<p>He made the comments about Swift in response to a question about what advice he would give to tech entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/09\/18\/23\/89842101-13866275-image-a-4_1726696984525.jpg\" alt=\"The Meta CEO told the Acquired podcast that following in the popstars footsteps is not available to his middle child\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Do something you care about,\u2019 Zuckerberg said. \u2018If you are trying to pattern out strategy learn as quickly as you can.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But part of what I\u2019m trying to say is I think there are different ways to build stuff. Our way worked for me and our team, but different things have clearly worked for other companies.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg took to\u00a0Instagram\u00a0to post about his experience appearing on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Fun night with at the Chase Center talking lessons from the early days and what\u2019s coming in the next decade of social, technology and\u00a0AI,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg has recently been given the go ahead\u00a0to train his new Meta AI technology using billions of British\u00a0Facebook\u00a0and \u00adInstagram posts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/09\/18\/22\/73743387-13866275-Balcony_view_He_also_shared_another_picture_that_gave_another_vi-a-1_1726696528653.jpg\" alt=\"Zuckerberg is a fan of Taylor Swift and posted this photo when he took his daughters to see her Eras Tour last year\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/09\/18\/23\/89841987-13866275-image-a-2_1726696950610.jpg\" alt=\"While a fan of Swift, Zuckerberg was making a wider point about the need for originality and authenticity among tech builders\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meta had not launched its AI tools in the UK or EU due to regulator concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions with the EU remain in deadlock. But Meta said the UK would now allow it to harvest billions of public posts and images.<\/p>\n<p>Meta said it would not use people\u2019s private messages, or material from under-18s.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg was recently honored as part of TIME magazine\u2019s list of the 100 most influential people in AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Mark Zuckerberg\u00a0has revealed he shut down his seven-year-old daughter when she told him she wants to grow up to be like\u00a0Taylor Swift. 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