Very few people know that Space X owner Elon Musk has a younger brother who co-founded Tesla and Space X with him. Kimbal James Musk is a Canadian-American businessman who is a successful entrepreneur, restaurateur, and investor. He grew up with his brother Elon and sister Tosca in South Africa.
Musk started his first venture in residential business with College Pro Painters in 1994. This was the same year when both the brother Elon and Kimbal ventured their second company Zip2. Zip2 was the company that provided online city guide software to newspapers, including Chicago Tribune and The New York Times. The brothers got the initial idea for Zip2 during a summer internship in1994. However, the company was later sold in 1999 to a company named Compaq for USD 307 million.
The multi-talented Kimbal Musk is an entrepreneur, activist and chef. Just like Elon, Kimbal was also interested in emerging technologies and software firms. He established online financial services alongside Elon named X (not to be confused with the current rebranded Twitter). The company later merged with PayPal, which was later acquired by ebay.
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Often spotted with donning cowboy hat, Kimbal enrolled in to the French Culinary Institute in New York. He opened a community bistro in Colorado which now opened in several locations of Chicago and downtown Denver. His kitchen restaurant helps in plant learning in local community which includes 26 gardens in Colorado, 16 Chicago, and 12 more around USA.
As per Forbes, Kimbal Musk net worth is around $700 million in 2021. Kimbal Musk owns 2 million shares of Tesla which is worth more than $350 million. One of the biggest controversy of Kimbal Musk was in 2021 when he sold 30,000 shares of Tesla which was worth $25,604,000 one day before his brother Elon Musk post a poll on Twitter asking if he should sell 10 percent of Tesla’s shares. Later Kimbal shake off these controversies stating lack of facts in theories.
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