Mark Zuckerberg has revealed how he responded when his seven-year-old daughter told him she wants to grow up to be like Taylor Swift.
The Meta CEO shared the story during a chat with the Acquired podcast.
He said he shut down his middle child August Chan Zuckerberg and told her that following in the popstar’s footsteps is “not available”.
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.
“One day, my daughter. We took her to a Taylor Swift concert and she was like, ‘You know Dad, I kind of want to be like Taylor Swift when I grow up’,” Zuckerberg told podcast hosts Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal.
“I was like, ‘But you can’t. That’s not available to you’,” he continued.
“She thought about it and she’s like, ‘Alright when I grow up I want people to want to be like August Chan Zuckerberg’. And I was like, ‘Hell yeah. Hell yeah’.”
Zuckerberg, 40, has been a longtime fan of fellow billionaire Swift, 34, despite not wanting his daughter to become a billionaire tortured poet.
He attended The Eras Tour in Santa Clara with his wife Priscilla and their daughters back in July 2023 and even posted a photo wearing friendship bracelets and gemstones on his face with the caption “Life of a girl dad.”
For the iconic concert, he reportedly forked out big bucks to get his family a box suite for the show. The suite at Santa Clara’s Levi’s Stadium reportedly can cost up to $50,000 and can hold 22 people.
Zuckerburg and his wife share three daughters: Maxima, 8, August, 6, and Aureila, 13 months.
The topic came up on the podcast when he discussed advice he would give to founders today in 2024. He encouraged people to “do something you care about,” learn as quickly as you can and to “learn from other people’s successes and failures but do your own thing.”
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