Meet Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal, the PayPal and Tesla investor with a US$752 million net worth who runs a cryptocurrency collective food charity … and is currently under investigation

Mar 24 , 2022

Elon Musk and his brother couldn’t be more different ... here’s everything you need to know about Kimbal. Photo: Instagram/@mayemusk

Elon Musk’s youngest brother is a trained chef who’s passionate about food justice; he also has a cryptocurrency-powered charity that helps students become farmers

Kimbal is a board member of big companies such as Chipotle, Tesla and SpaceX, and even invested in the start-up that eventually became PayPal

Kimbal Musk admitted to Time magazine in 2021 that his elder brother Elon is a “savant at business but empathy is not his gift”. Kimbal also claimed that neither he or his sibling are obsessed with wealth and that he finds discussion of it “boring”, according to Input Magazine. But with his net worth of US$245 billion and as the richest man on the planet, it’s no wonder intrigue surrounds Elon Musk’s family.

So who is Elon Musk’s youngest brother, Kimbal?

The Musk family, including Elon and Kimbal. Photo: @kimbalmusk/Instagram

Kimbal is the youngest child of Errol and Maye Musk. They were raised in Pretoria, South Africa, but Elon and Kimbal moved to their mother’s native Canada in 1989.

After graduating in 1995, it wasn’t long before the brothers started co-founding and investing in companies. Their software company Zip2 was acquired by Compaq in 1999 and Kimbal invested in Elon’s start-up X.com, which eventually became part of PayPal.

Does Kimbal have stakes in Elon’s companies?

Kimbal Musk was one of Tesla’s early investors. Photo: @kimbal/Twitter

Kimbal was an early investor in Tesla and has been on the board since 2004 with a 0.04 per cent stake. He has also been on the board of SpaceX since 2003, and is on the board of Mexican fast food chain restaurant Chipotle.

How else does Kimbal make money?

Kimbal Musk is passionate about food justice. Photo: @kimbal/Twitter

They’re both business-savvy, but while Elon wants to colonise Mars, Kimbal wants to improve life on Earth. Elon’s cowboy hat-wearing brother is the co-founder of The Kitchen restaurant group with Hugo Matheson, and is on a mission to make sure “everyone has access to real food”. The trained chef says food is his passion and claims his initiative stimulates the American farming industry with millions of dollars annually. He started Square Roots Urban Growers indoor farming in 2016.

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