Square Roots' Kimbal Musk: “Working in tech was like chewing sawdust”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Sunday Times tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk and found of Square Roots, to talk about going to culinary school after selling his first company with Elon for $307 (4:00), living in New York during Sept 11 (5:45), how cooking for the firefighters inspired him to start a restaurant (8:30), leaving New York (11:00), going back to tech (14:45), breaking his neck (16:15), quitting tech for good (18::30), hitting on the farm-to-table movement (21:00), backing meatless meat (23:45), his warehouse farm startup (25:55), how Tesla began (23:50), space tourism (30:00), working at a meat-packing factory (31:45), growing up in an entrepreneurial family (34:40), setting up gardens at school (36:50), taking inspiration from Jamie Oliver (38:45), having dinner with Prince Charles (41:10), why he invested in eSports (43:00), and the plan for Mars.

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:04.4	I told myself, when I was going to surgery,
0:06.2	that if they did fix me, I'd focus on food.
0:09.3	And this was kind of an opportunity to give myself permission to do what I think is the best use of my time here on earth.
0:17.2	And most people, when they, I think, go through that, I hear this,
0:20.7	that they say, you know, I want to spend more time with a family, I want to spend more time at home.
0:25.9	I was like, you know, I haven't been working hard enough.
0:28.0	You know, my, I need to do something that makes a real difference.
0:32.4	Right.
0:33.3	And it needs to be in food.
0:46.4	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
0:49.5	We have a fabulous one for you.
0:53.0	None other than Kimball Musk, younger brother of Elon Musk, who you may or may not know,
1:00.9	is also his longtime business partner, Consolieri, investor, and all the stuff that his brother does,
1:07.5	so SpaceX, Tesla, etc. And they've been at it for a very long time.
1:14.1	They're from South Africa, but they started out in Silicon Valley way back in the early 90s.
1:19.6	And they sold their first company called Zip2, which was kind of like an online yellow
1:25.0	pages married with maps.
1:27.2	They sold that for $300 dollars in cash 307 million
1:30.9	in cash in 1999 and that payday is what sent them both on their way so Elon went off and did
1:38.2	x.com which became PayPal Kimball Kimball has invested in every business along the way he He's also on the boards of both Tesla and SpaceX.
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