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title: Billion Dollar Baby
description: Who would win in a fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? Americans are unsure.
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[Cory Manento](https://www.gradientmetrics.com/trendlines/author/cory-manento)2023/07/12< 1 min read

# Billion Dollar Baby

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With Meta’s newly-released Threads app already [rivaling](https://email.gradientmetrics.com/t/t-l-zdrltjy-jldktdjrtu-yk/) Twitter’s user base, company heads Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk will settle their business dispute just as the free market intended: a physical altercation inside a cube of interlocking metal.

 

“I’m up for a cage match if he is lol” is somehow an [actual tweet](https://email.gradientmetrics.com/t/t-l-zdrltjy-jldktdjrtu-yu/) from Musk regarding Zuckerberg, and not a parody account imagining WWE superstar [The Undertaker](https://email.gradientmetrics.com/t/t-l-zdrltjy-jldktdjrtu-jl/) as a teenager. Not to be out-cringed, Zuck [replied](https://email.gradientmetrics.com/t/t-l-zdrltjy-jldktdjrtu-jr/) “Send me location.” Given that the fight [might actually happen](https://email.gradientmetrics.com/t/t-l-zdrltjy-jldktdjrtu-jy/), we asked the only question there is to ask about the brawling billionaires: Who would win?

 

Fighting out of the red corner, **“unsure” takes the title with a plurality (40%) of Americans ambivalent about who would win**. One thing we *can* be sure about is, regardless of who wins, this clusterzuck of a fight would be embarrassing for everyone involved.

 

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[Cory Manento

](https://www.gradientmetrics.com/trendlines/author/cory-manento)Cory holds a master’s degree and PhD in Political Science from Brown University, specializing in experimental survey research on voter attitudes, behavior, and electoral preferences. Coming from a background in which success is achieved through rigorous causal inference and sharp research design, Cory thrives on translating client needs into testable questions that yield actionable results.

[mailto:cory@gradientmetrics.com](mailto:cory@gradientmetrics.com)

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