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Kimbal Musk
Chairman of OneRiot
Kimbal Musk is the CEO of OneRiot, a realtime search engine that finds the freshest news, videos, blogs, and websites that people are sharing online right now. He is an entrepreneur who has helped found, advise and invest in several software and technology companies. In 1995, Kimbal started Zip2, an early internet content management company, with his brother Elon Musk. The company was sold in 1999 to Compaq for $307 million in cash, one of the largest transactions of its kind in the internet industry. After selling Zip2, Musk was an early investor in PayPal and in October 2002, PayPal was acquired by eBay for US$1.5 billion in stock.
Kimbal owns a restaurant, “The Kitchen” in Boulder Colorado, which has been named one of, “America’s Top Restaurants” according to Food & Wine, Zagat’s, Gourmet, and the James Beard Foundation. Kimbal is a graduate of Queen’s University in Canada with a degree in Business Communication and the French Culinary Institute in New York City. Kimbal currently sits on the board of directors for SpaceX Corp. and Tesla Motors.
Contact him at kimbal@oneriot.com and follow him on Twitter @kimbal.