However daddy I like Taylor Swift!
Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg not too long ago divulged how he shortly shut down his daughter’s dream of at some point changing into just like the pop megastar in a current interview.
The tech tycoon went on the “Acquired” podcast earlier this month and revealed a dialog the place he seemingly squashed his center youngster’s want to grow to be similar to the worldwide icon.
“We took her to a Taylor Swift live performance and she or he was like, ‘ Dad, I form of need to be like Taylor Swift once I develop up,’” Zuckerberg shared. “I used to be like, ‘However you possibly can’t. That’s not accessible to you.’”
The daddy-of-three didn’t inform podcast hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal why skilled singing at that stage isn’t “accessible” to his daughter, August, however did say that in their speak, she ultimately modified her thoughts and stated she wished to be like herself.
“She thought of it and she or he’s like, ‘alright once I develop up I need folks to need to be like August Chan Zuckerberg,’” the father-of-three shared.
Coincidentally, his center youngster has the identical identify as Swift’s monitor “August” on her Grammy-nominated album “Folklore.”
The Meta CEO has been a fan and even supporter of Swift – regardless of not wanting his daughter to grow to be a billionaire tortured poet.
He attended The Eras Tour in Santa Clara together with his spouse Priscilla and their daughters again in July 2023 and even posted a photograph carrying friendship bracelets and gems on his face with the caption “Lifetime of a lady dad.”
For the enduring live performance, he reportedly forked out huge bucks to get his household a field suite for the present. The suite at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium reportedly can value as much as $50,000 and might maintain 22 folks.
Social media has had a combined response to his feedback concerning the “Lover” singer on the podcast.
“Positive, Taylor Swift is a as soon as in twenty lifetimes musical genius however one doesn’t merely quash desires like that,” stated one consumer on Reddit.
“He despatched his daughter into her popularity period. Hope she creates all of the music she needs to,” one other wrote.
“I’m positive the child with loads of it’s going to get better proper wonderful,” somebody commented on the social media platform.
Zuckerburg and his spouse share three daughters: Maxima, 8, August, 6, and Aureila, 13 months.
The subject got here up on the podcast when he mentioned recommendation he would give to founders at this time in 2024. He inspired folks to “do one thing you care about,” study as shortly as you possibly can and to “study from different folks’s successes and failures however do your personal factor.”
