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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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Going where Elon goes – in politics, and in business – has been Kimbal’s modus operandi for decades. And it’s made him very rich.
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0:00.0 | Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, April 23rd. |
0:05.0 | Today on Forbes, chef, drone artist, Consiglieri, how Kimball Musk wrote his brother's billion-dollar rocket ship. |
0:15.0 | Earlier this month, after President Trump's so-called Liberation Day, tariff's announcement wiped trillions of |
0:22.5 | dollars off global equity markets, Elon Musk expressed his peak by picking a fight with Trump's |
0:28.2 | Tariff Hawk Trade Advisor Peter Navarro and sharing a video on X of free trade economist Milton |
0:34.7 | Friedman. Kimball Musk, Elon's 53-year-old younger brother, was far more |
0:40.7 | direct. He called Trump, quote, the most high-tax American president in generations. He attacked |
0:48.1 | the quote Trump tariff tax, saying it drove up prices for everyday goods. He urged Trump to fire Navarro. In one post, |
0:56.6 | Kimball even appeared to question Trump's intelligence. It was quite the change of tune. |
1:02.2 | For most of the last few months, Kimball appeared fully on board with Trump's agenda, |
1:07.0 | repeatedly praising the administration and his brother's efforts to gut federal agencies as head of the |
1:12.3 | Department of Government Efficiency. But as recently as a year ago, before Elon endorsed Trump and |
1:18.2 | became his biggest campaign donor, Kimball described himself as, quote, not a Trump supporter. |
1:25.2 | Following Elon's lead has been lucrative for Kimball, a trained chef who is often photographed |
1:31.0 | in his signature cowboy hat. |
1:33.4 | Thanks entirely to small stakes in Elon's two largest companies, SpaceX and Tesla, the younger |
1:39.3 | Musk brother is worth an estimated $900 million. |
1:43.3 | At Tesla's peak in December, he was worth an estimated $1.3 billion. |
1:49.4 | Kimball joined Tesla's board in 2004, a position that came with generous share awards. |
1:55.2 | He's sold $262 million of Tesla stock since 2010, but still has a stake in the automaker worth |
2:01.9 | $380 million. Kimball was on SpaceX's board from 2002 until 2022. He has sold $100 million |
2:10.9 | of shares of the private company on secondary markets, and his remaining stake is worth |
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