Kimbal Musk

Kimbal Musk Profile

Social entrepreneur and environmentalist, Kimbal Musk has one of the most diverse resumes in business. The multi-millionaire collaborated with his brother Elon on their successful early ventures, Zip2 and PayPal; sits on the boards of Tesla Motors, Space X, and Chipotle; and is one of the most prominent drivers of the Real Food Revolution.

After a decade as a highly successful tech entrepreneur, Musk followed his passion for food to culinary school in New York City. When the 9/11 attacks occurred, he volunteered six weeks to cook for the firefighters. The sense of community he was able to create with food inspired him to open The Kitchen, a restaurant that serves locally grown organic food.

His early days in the restaurant industry opened his eyes to a crisis that most people were oblivious to: the modern American diet and heavily chemical-dependent food industry were harming our health, our communities, and our environment. Furthermore, most Americans, especially those in poverty, did not have access to nourishing natural food. The Kitchen turned out to be just the beginning of Musk’s plan to grow a network of business, educational, and agricultural ventures big enough to return the nation to a diet packed with healthy, local food from chemical-free farms.

Since 2011, Musk has opened nearly 50 Next Door Eateries, farm-to-table-restaurants with fresh meals at affordable prices, throughout the country. His urban farming venture, Square Roots, in Brooklyn New York attracted 500 applications from Millennial urban farmers vying for 15 open positions.
His nonprofit The Kitchen Community has established hundreds of Learning Gardens in schools and formally trained their teachers to incorporate them into weekly lessons.

Currently, Musk and his restaurants work with 100 different farmers and feed 1 million people annually. He aims to expand that number to 5 million by 2020.

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  Kimbal is on the board for Tesla Motors, SpaceX, The Anschutz Health and Wellness Center and Chipotle Mexican Grill. His personal mission is to get communities rapidly thriving by improving every part of the food culture. Kimbal is a co-founder of The Kitchen, a growing family of restaurants that sources directly from local farmers, stimulating the local farm economy to the tune of millions of dollars a year, and creating quality jobs.

  In 2011, Kimbal co-founded The Kitchen Community, a complementary non-profit organization. The Kitchen Community has already built 200 Learning Gardens reaching over 120,000 students every school day, improving their vegetable intake and academic achievements.