🚨ELON MUSK'S BROTHER SOLD HIS COMPANY FOR $307 MILLION AT 26..
THEN GAVE UP TECH COMPLETELY TO COOK FOR FIREFIGHTERS IN THE RUBBLE OF 9/11.. THIS IS THE MUSK NOBODY TALKS ABOUT..
Most people only know Kimbal Musk as Elon's younger brother.. But his actual life path makes almost no sense on paper..
In 1989, at 17, he left South Africa for Canada with almost no money.. He paid his way through university running a house-painting franchise.. And won manager of the year doing it..
Then in 1995 he moved to Palo Alto with Elon and they started Zip2.. An online city guide and mapping company, years before Google Maps existed..
They were broke.. They slept on the office floor and showered at the local gym.. To impress investors, they built a giant fake casing around a normal PC to make it look like a supercomputer..
In 1999 Compaq bought Zip2 for $307 million.. Kimbal, at 26, walked away with around $22 million..
He could have done anything.. Retired.. Started another tech company.. Coasted on the PayPal and Tesla fortunes that were coming..
Instead he enrolled in culinary school in New York to become a chef..
His timing was brutal.. He graduated in 2001.. Right as 9/11 happened.. He lived steps from the World Trade Center..
So he grabbed his new skills and spent six weeks cooking for firefighters and rescue workers at Ground Zero.. 10 to 12 hour days in the wreckage.. Feeding the people pulling bodies from the rubble..
He said that experience changed everything.. Watching exhausted workers find comfort in a shared meal convinced him that food was his actual life's purpose..
He moved to Colorado and started building farm-to-table restaurants that sourced straight from local farmers..
Then in 2010 came the second turning point..
He broke his neck in a tubing accident and was temporarily paralyzed for three days.. He called it a near-death experience.. And it pushed him even harder into his mission..
He started a nonprofit that built outdoor learning gardens in hundreds of underserved schools.. Reaching hundreds of thousands of kids..
He co-founded an urban farming company growing food inside shipping containers in cities.. Each one producing the equivalent of two acres of farmland..
And then in 2022 he did the strangest pivot yet..
When Intel decided to shut down its light-drone division, Kimbal bought the whole thing.. 9,000 drones and the engineering team..
Now his company flies massive drone shows that act as pixels in the sky.. Including over 3,000 drones above St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.. Recreating Renaissance art in the night sky..
One brother is trying to colonize Mars and build humanoid robots..
The other made his fortune in the same rooms.. Then spent the next 25 years on something almost nobody expected..
Feeding people, teaching kids to grow food, and turning the sky into art..
Same beginning.. Completely different definition of what to do with a fortune.
SpaceX just landed a Falcon 9 booster, and Elon Musk's live reaction was more human than anyone expected.
"It's standing up. It's coming in. It sounded like an explosion. Look at this. Look at this. It's just sitting there. Holy smokes, man."
With Spectrum V2 our mission is to make it as easy as possible to launch an index, that's why the new and improved launch flow strips away all complexity.
Simply type in the assets, set their weights and customize the name of your index, as easy as that ✍️
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Elon Musk told Ron Baron he's building a chip that will be 2 to 3 times better than NVIDIA - at 10% of the cost
"I have the entire physical design of the chip laid out in memory - I can visualize the whole thing"
when TSMC told him a new fab takes 5 years he said: "five years to me is an eternity - my timelines go one year, two year, and at year three it goes to infinity"
so he's building his own
Tesla's self-driving has logged 10 billion miles - 4 times safer than a human driver - with the new chip it will be 10x
"I don't own any vacation homes - just one house in Austin and a tiny house at Starbase - friends come to visit and they think I'm kidding"
watch the full conversation ↓
@bryan_johnson "that I ate to be in family ritual" 🤣🤣 that hit different
stack arrived yesterday, do you recommend a 24hr water fast before starting or just jump straight in?
the great thing about $prism is that you can just keep adding components
you can build out a modular DeFi ecosystem with everything coming back to accrue value to prism holders
maybe at some point development will be in some way decentralized...? 👀
looking forward to see what alpha gets dropped by @ColbySaysHi on @MCGlive this Thursday
also nice teasers in the $prism groupchat, feel free to join:
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