Who is Kimbal Musk? Elon's brother in the spotlight to Trump over rates | Company Business News

While the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, withheld to openly criticize US President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, his brother did not have such a problem. Kimbal Musk has taken headlines for his strongly worded X posts against Donald Trump’s rates and its impact on prices and costs for US businesses and customers. According to the Tesla Investor Relations page, Kimbal is an entrepreneur, activist and chef ‘who has co-founded and invested in companies for more than two decades’. Forbes in a profile, said Kimbal Musk is an estimated $ 900 million worth caving via stakes in his brother’s business with a billion billion billion dollar Tesla and SpaceX. So we look at who Kimbal Musk is, how rich he is, and how he earned his almost billion dollars his fortune. Who is Kimbal Musk? Kimbal Musk is the younger brother of Elon Musk. He was born on September 20, 1972 in Pretoria (South Africa). Like the rest of his family, he currently has American citizenship. In 1995 he obtained a degree in matters at Queen’s University, Canada, where he went to live with his mother Tosca Musk with his mother in 1989. He is now married to Christiana Wyly, daughter of businessman Sam Wlyly, and lives in Boulder, Colerado (USA). Kimbal Musk is active on social media via Instagram and X, and is known for his signature Cowbot Hat, which he has been wearing since 2014. The Tesla Investor Relations Profile Page describes Kimbal Musk as an ‘entrepreneur, activist and chef’, who ‘agreed and invested in companies on technology, hospital, entertainment and agricultural industries’. According to the website, the personal mission of Kimbal Musk is to empower innovators and scale sustainable technologies that contribute to a happier, healthier future. Kimbal Musk’s career: From SpaceX, to Tesla and Chipotle According to the website, Kimbal Musk founded the online cards company Zip2 Corporation with Brother Elon Musk, which was sold to Compaq for $ 307 million; Who merged with Yahoo Maps later in 1999. According to a report from People Magazine, the brothers received financing from their parents and sister Tosca. He is a founding director of SpaceX, in which he invested in 2002 (he was on the board until January 2002). In the same year, he acquired Chipmaker Intel’s light drone division and called it Nova Sky stories (he is CEO and co-founder). He also invested in EV Car manufacturer Tesla, of which he owns shares and has been part of the Board of Directors since 2004. After selling Zip2, Kimbal Musk studied at the French Culinary Institute in New York. After his culinary ambitions, in 2004, he has the restaurant enterprise The Kitchen (he is also CEO), along with chef Hugo Matheson and the then wife Jen Lewin in Boulder (Colorado, USA), who buys food directly from local farmers. In 2006, he became the CEO of Search Engine Called Oneriot, which was purchased by Walmart in 2011. Kimbal Musk was a director at the American Restaurant Chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. In 2016, he fellow-formed Square Roots, an urban indoor farming company, which cultivated fresh, local green in climate-controlled, AI-groomed containers. The People report added that it closed the most important operations in 2023. What is the net worth of Kimbal Musk? How did he get rich? Forbes, in his latest article on Musk brothers and sisters Elon and Kimbal, said the younger brother was among those who made ‘profitable’ profits from their connection with the Tesla and SpaceX head. Its stake in SpaceX is worth an estimated $ 200 million. Kimbal Musk is worth about $ 900 million, largely thanks to Stakes in SpaceX and Tesla. During the Markets High Post Donald Trump’s US election, his Tesla interest was worth about $ 1.3 billion (in December 2024), according to Forbes. Its stake is now worth $ 380 million. Forbes mentions Kimbal Musk’s role in the empire of his brother as ‘musktocracy’ – those whose wealth is linked to the increasing fate of Elon Musk. Other names include management members Larry Ellison and Marc Andresen, added it. Compared to his brother, Kimbal Musk’s own businesses were much less successful. He did not respond to Forbes’ inquiries for the story, but 20 people who worked directly with Kimbal Musk said the report. How did they describe him? A ‘A relaxed personality who prefers to cook for the production of high interests and the construction of technical enterprises, but is constantly drawn into Elon’s orbit’. First published: 27 Apr 2025, 08:56 AM Ist