Kimbal Musk Biography
Kimbal Musk is a restaurateur, chef, and entrepreneur from South Africa. He is the owner of The Kitchen Restaurant Group, a chain of “community” restaurants in Colorado, Chicago, and Indianapolis. He is the co-founder and chairman of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has built hundreds of “Learning Gardens” in schoolyards across the United States.
Kimbal Musk Age
Musk was born Kimbal Reeve Musk on September 20, 1972, in Pretoria, South Africa. He is 50 years old as of September 2022.
Kimbal Musk Education
He enrolled at Queen’s University to pursue a business degree. In 1995, he received his bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University.
Kimbal Musk Family- Brother
Musk was born and raised, in Pretoria, South Africa to his father, Errol, who was the owner of his own engineering practice while his mother, Maye, was a renowned dietician.He was born alongside Elonhis brother, their sister Tosca and several cousins.
Kimbal Musk Wife- Children
Kimbal has three children from his previous marriage to architect Jen Lewin. He married entrepreneur Christiana Wyly after their divorce. The couple is from Boulder, Colorado.
Kimbal Musk The Kitchen Restaurant Group – Career
Kimbal Musk made his first foray into the world of entrepreneurship and investment in 1995 with College Pro Painters, a residential painting company. In the same year, he and Elon co-founded Zip2, which served as an online guide and provided electronic versions of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers. Compaq purchased the company from them in 1999 for $307 million. Musk went on to become a prominent investor in the software and technology industries. He invested in X.com, Elon Musk’s first venture, an online bank and financial services provider. In 2001, the company was renamed PayPal. A year later, multi-national e-commerce corporation eBay paid $1.5 billion in stock for X.com.
Most entrepreneurs would have retired after such success with PayPal, preferring to spend the rest of their lives in ease and luxury. Musk, on the other hand, discovered a new passion. While Elon Musk stayed in California to build his energy empire, Kimbal Musk moved to New York to study culinary arts at the prestigious French Culinary Institute. Following his graduation, Musk and his then-wife Jen Lewin embarked on a cross-country road trip in February 2002 to find an ideal location for their restaurant. They traveled to Chicago, Jackson Hole, Denver, Santa Fe, San Diego, Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle before settling on Boulder because of the weather and food scene.
In April 2004, Musk, Lewin, and Chef Hugo Matheson opened The Kitchen Boulder, a community bistro. They first expanded to the upper floor of the same building, launching The Kitchen Upstairs, a cocktail lounge. next door, an urban casual American eatery located directly next to Musk’s original restaurant on Park Street Mall, opened in 2011. Glendale, Stapleton, and Denver Union Station are all home to the restaurant chain. The Kitchen has evolved into a restaurant chain with the mission of serving simple, real food to real Americans. Various culinary outlets and organizations, including Food & Wine, Zagat’s, Gourmet, OpenTable, and the James Beard Foundation, have named it one of the top restaurants in the country.
Musk was appointed CEO of OneRiot, Inc., a provider of email marketing solutions, in November 2006. He left when OneRiot was acquired by Walmart Labs, a privately held website headquartered in Mountain View, California.
He founded Square Roots Urban Growers, a food production company that aims to build campuses of climate-controlled, indoor, hydroponic vertical farms that can be sustained in a city environment, in 2017.
Kimbal Musk Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 700 million dollars as of 2022.