Kimbal Musk

Kimbal Musk
Kimbal Musk
Born (1972-09-20) September 20, 1972
Pretoria, South Africa
Alma mater Queen's University (1995)[1]
Occupation Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, environmentalist
Relatives Elon Musk (brother)
Tosca Musk (sister)

Kimbal Musk (born September 20, 1972) is a South African-born Canadian and American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and environmentalist who has invested in several technology and food companies. He owns The Kitchen Cafe, LLC, a family of community restaurants located in Boulder, Fort Collins, Denver, Glendale, and Chicago.[2]

He co-founded The Kitchen Community, a 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings outdoor vegetable gardens called "Learning Gardens" to schoolyards and community spaces.[3] He sits on the boards of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and Chipotle Mexican Grill.[4] He is the younger brother of billionaire businessman Elon Musk.

Early life

Musk grew up in an ambitious household, with his brother Elon and many cousins. His mother was a prominent dietitian, and his father had his own engineering practice.[5] After finishing high school in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk left to meet his brother in Toronto, Canada and enrolled in university to pursue a degree in business at Queen's University. While in school, Musk first worked at Scotiabank. He graduated with his degree from Queen's University in 1995.[1]

Business career

Musk's first entrepreneurship venture was a residential painting business with College Pro Painters in 1995, when he and his elder brother, Elon started their second company, Zip2. Zip2 Corporation was an online city guide that provided content for the new online versions of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune newspapers. The company was sold in 1999 to Compaq for $307 million.[6]

After selling Zip2, Musk invested in several young software and technology companies. Musk was an early investor in his brother’s venture X.com, an online financial services and email payments company. X.com merged with PayPal, which in October 2002 was acquired by eBay for $1.5 billion in stock.[7]

The Kitchen

While Elon stayed in California, Kimbal moved to New York[6] and enrolled into the French Culinary Institute in New York City. In April 2004, Musk opened The Kitchen Boulder, a community bistro in Boulder, Colorado with Jen Lewin and Hugo Matheson.[8] The Kitchen has been named one of "America’s Top Restaurants" according to Food & Wine, Zagat’s, Gourmet, and the James Beard Foundation.

Musk and Matheson expanded their restaurant for the first time and opened The Kitchen Upstairs, a cocktail lounge, which is located directly above The Kitchen Boulder. From 2006 to 2011 Musk served as the CEO of OneRiot, an advertising network for the real-time, social web. In September 2011 Walmart-Labs acquired OneRiot for an undisclosed purchase price.[9]

In 2011, The Kitchen Next Door opened as Boulder’s Community Pub and is located right next door to the west of the original restaurant on Pearl Street Mall. Next Door has locations in Glendale[10] and Denver Union Station.[11] In 2012, The Kitchen Denver opened on the 16th Street Mall and expanded the restaurants' community to Denver.[12]

After seven years of supporting the Growe Foundation to plant school gardens in the Boulder community,[13] Musk and Matheson established The Kitchen Community[14] 501c3 nonprofit to help connect kids to real food by creating Learning Gardens in schools across America. Learning Gardens teach children an understanding of food, healthy eating, lifestyle choices and environment through lesson plans and activities that tie into existing school curriculum, such as math, science and literacy.[15]

Each of The Kitchen restaurants donates a percentage of sales to help plant Learning Gardens in their local community.[16] In 2012, The Kitchen Community built 26 gardens in Colorado, 16 in Chicago, and 12 more around the USA.[17]

In December 2012, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel handed The Kitchen Community nonprofit $1 million to install 80 gardens in Chicago city schools.[18] On February 2, 2015, The Kitchen Community celebrated its 200 Learning Garden build at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy, a high school in Los Angeles Unified School District which also marked the District's first SEEDS Project. [19]

By the end of 2015, four years after its founding, The Kitchen Community built 260 Learning Gardens across Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Memphis.[20]

References

  1. 1 2 "Success Stories: Queen's Business Consulting: A Tale of Two Consultants". Queen's University School of Business. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  2. ↑ "The Kitchen".
  3. ↑ Padden, Caroline (October 29, 2012). "Learning Gardens: Connecting Kids to Real Food". 5280 Magazine.
  4. ↑ "Chipotle Mexican Grill names Kimbal Musk to board". Denver Post. August 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ Brown, Douglas (August 29, 2013). "Kimbal Musk, owner of The Kitchen restaurants in Colorado, talks food". Denver Post.
  6. 1 2 Sara Lin (May 22, 2009). "Dot-Com Chef Meets Burning Man". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  7. ↑ Margaret Kane (July 8, 2002). "eBay picks up PayPal for $1.5 billion". CNET. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  8. ↑ Hugo Matheson & Kimbal Musk. "Marinated Pork Chops with Herb Salsa". Food & Wine. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
  9. ↑ Rao, Leena (September 13, 2011). "Walmart Acquires Mobile And Social Ad Targeting Startup OneRiot". TechCrunch.
  10. ↑ Tobias, Ruth. "Now Open: The Kitchen Next Door". Zagat.com. Zagat. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  11. ↑ Zeppelin, Andra (July 24, 2014). "The Kitchen Next Door now open at Union Station". Eater. Retrieved July 24, 2014.
  12. ↑ "The Kitchen Community History & Philosophy". Retrieved April 27, 2014.
  13. ↑ Greenhalgh, Tracy (November 17, 2011). "The Kitchen Community: Creating Gardens for Kids". Boulder's Best.
  14. ↑ "The Kitchen Community - Community Through Food". thekitchencommunity.org.
  15. ↑ Stoler, Felicia D. Stoler (December 14, 2011). "Learning Gardens Sprouting Up Across America". FOX News.
  16. ↑ "The Kitchen Community Nonprofit".
  17. ↑ Brown, Douglas (April 24, 2013). 10. "Digest: Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares to Denver, Strings holds auction" Check |url= value (help). The Denver Post.
  18. ↑ Brown, Douglas (April 24, 2013). "Digest: Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares to Denver, Strings holds auction". The Denver Post.
  19. ↑ "EVENT: 200th Learning Garden Ribbon Cutting Ceremony". thekitchencommunity.org.
  20. ↑ "The Kitchen Community's Learning Gardens Take Root". 5280. Retrieved 2015-12-28.
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