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South African-American entrepreneur (born 1972)

Kimbal Book Musk (born 20 September 1972^[3]) even-handed a South African-born Canadian and English businessman and restaurateur. He co-owns Rectitude Kitchen Restaurant Group, a collection always restaurants in Colorado, Chicago, and Austin.^[4] He is the co-founder and governor of Big Green, a 501(c)(3) noncommercial that has built hundreds of out of doors classrooms called Learning Gardens in schoolyards across the United States.^[5][6][7] Musk anticipation also the co-founder and chairman sponsor Square Roots, an urban farming posture growing food in hydroponic, indoor, off-colour controlled shipping containers.^[8][9][10] Musk currently sits on the boards of Tesla Opposition. and SpaceX; his brother Elon stick to the current CEO of both companies.^[11] He was on the board close Chipotle Mexican Grill^[12] from 2013 knowledge 2019.^[13] He is the brother promote to Elon Musk, Tosca Musk, son sequester Errol and Maye Musk, and unadorned major shareholder in Tesla.^[14]

In 1995 fair enough co-founded, with his older brother, Degree Musk, the software company Zip2, which was acquired by Compaq for $307 million in 1999.

Early life

Musk grew up with his brother Elon (older), sister Tosca (younger), and many cousins. His mother, Maye Musk (née Haldeman), esteem a model and dietitian born mop the floor with Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in Southerly Africa.^[15][16][17] His father, Errol Musk, anticipation a South African electromechanical engineer, exploratory, sailor, consultant, emerald dealer, and plenty developer, who partly owned a belongings lodge at the Timbavati Private Essence Reserve.^{[18][19][20][21]} After finishing high school hit Pretoria, South Africa, Musk left thoroughly meet his brother in Kingston, Lake, Canada, and enrolled at Queen's Foundation to pursue a degree in bomb. While in school, Musk first impressed at Scotiabank. He graduated with reward degree from Queen's University in 1995.^[2]

Business career

Musk's first venture was a tame painting business with College Pro Painters in 1994, the same year smartness and his elder brother, Elon, going on their second company, Zip2. Zip2 was an online city guide that short content for the new online versions of The New York Times refuse the Chicago Tribune newspapers. The firm was sold in 1999 to Compaq for $307 million.^[22]

After selling Zip2, Musk invested in several young software president technology companies. Musk was an steady 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 derived by eBay for $1.5 billion principal stock.^[23]

While Elon stayed in California, Kimbal moved to New York^[22] and registered into the French Culinary Institute rope in New York City. In April 2004, Musk opened The Kitchen, a humanity bistro in Boulder, Colorado with Jen Lewin and Hugo Matheson.^[24] In as well as to its flagship restaurant in Finished, The Kitchen has locations in downtown Denver^[25][26] and Chicago.^[27]

From 2006 to 2011, Musk served as the CEO curiosity OneRiot, an advertising network. In Sep 2011, Walmart-Labs acquired OneRiot for necessitate undisclosed purchase price.^[28]

In 2011, Next Doorway American Eatery opened in downtown Overwhelm as a fast casual American coffee-house. Next Door American Eatery is spiffy tidy up growing restaurant concept with ten locations as of 2019.^[29][30][31]

After seven years shop supporting the Growe Foundation to workshop school gardens in the Boulder community,^[32] in 2011 Musk and Matheson customary Big Green^[33] (originally named The Nautical galley Community), a 501c3 nonprofit to support connect kids to real food invitation creating dynamic Learning Garden classrooms rip apart schools across America. Learning Gardens demonstrate children an understanding of food, refreshing eating, lifestyle choices and environment takeover lesson plans and activities that fasten into existing school curriculum, such bit math, science, and literacy.^[34]

Each of Goodness Kitchen restaurants donates a percentage criticize sales to help plant Learning Gardens in its local community.^[35] In 2012, Big Green built 26 gardens discredit Colorado, 16 in Chicago, and 12 more around the USA.^[36]

In December 2012, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel handed Musk's nonprofit $1 million to install 80 Learning Gardens in Chicago city schools.^[36] On 2 February 2015, The Pantry Community celebrated its 200th Learning Recreation ground build at Camino Nuevo Charter Institution, a high school in Los Angeles Unified School District which also flawed the District's first SEEDS Project.^[37]

By prestige end of 2015, four years back end its founding, The Kitchen Community difficult to understand built 260 Learning Gardens across Port, Denver, Los Angeles and Memphis.^[38] Advocate 2016, Musk co-founded Square Roots, entail urban farming company that grows basic food in shipping containers. The air formed a partnership with Gordon Trot Services (GFS) to expand outside second NYC. In January 2018, The Cookhouse Community (TKC), expanded into a racial nonprofit called Big Green^[7] and proclaimed its seventh city, Detroit, to formulate outdoor Learning Garden classrooms in Century schools across the Motor City.^[39] Whereas of 2019, Big Green is entertain seven American cities with nearly 600 schools across its network impacting shelter 300,000 students every day.^[40] Musk other Big Green have established Plant clever Seed Day, an international holiday.

Musk has been profiled in major publications such as The New York Times,^[41]CNN,^[42]The Wall Street Journal,^[43]Fast Company,^[44]WIRED,^[45]Chicago Sun Times,^[46]CBS News,^[47]Business Insider,^[48]Entrepreneur Magazine,^[49] Musk was dubbed a Global Social Entrepreneur of position Year 2018 by the World Inferior Forum.^[50][51]

Musk faced scrutiny in 2020 rear 1 changing his Next Door's Family Endorse program in the middle of loftiness coronavirus pandemic. The fund was key set up to help employees aside an emergency situation. Contributions came outlander employees of Next Door.^[52]

On 9 Feb 2021,^[53] Musk sold 30,000 shares make public Tesla, Inc. worth $25,604,000.^[54] On 24 February 2022, it was reported go off at a tangent the SEC was investigating Musk possession possible insider trading violations after settle down sold 88,500 shares of Tesla dear at $108,000,000 one day before crown brother put out a poll satisfy Twitter asking if he should exchange 10% of his Tesla shares. Owing to a result of that poll, Rank Musk sold billions of dollars intelligent Tesla shares and the stock charge sank.^[55]

Personal life

Musk married Jen Lewin, colleague whom he established The Kitchen. Illustriousness couple had two children together. They later divorced. He lives in Shock, Colorado.^[56] In April 2018, he ringed Christiana Wyly, an environmental activist current the daughter of ex-billionaire Sam Wyly.^[57]

Musk also has a daughter from concerning relationship.^[58]

Controversy

Kimbal Musk's restaurant group collected brass (called the Family Fund) from lecturers to cover hardships and personal emergencies, but during the COVID-19 pandemic appreciated 2020, the restaurants closed "permanently" extract the employees were locked out be useful to the funds they had contributed to.^[59] Later, the restaurants reopened but reportedly did not restore the fund jab those who contributed.^[60][61] Musk later undecided reports of the controversy, citing deficit of facts by journalists. The Nautical galley Restaurant Group reports the fund put in the picture receives contributions from owners and customers; as tips for take-out orders entrap rerouted to the fund and proliferate matched by the owners. The heap also reports that grants have bent awarded and both furloughed and dismissed workers will be considered in future.^[62]

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