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Pretty cool thing he is doing with thekitchencommunity, I didn't know Elon even had a brother

It can be tricky for anyone being the younger sibling, but imagine what it must be like to be the younger brother of Elon Musk, a businessman habitually referred to as a real life Tony Stark.

His reputation seems to get more outsized with each fresh headline. Just this week, the elder Musk’s company SpaceX filed paperwork asking for permission to use satellites to beam down Internet service from space. Meanwhile, his other high-profile company, Tesla, continues to make advances toward its ambition to make electric cars more ubiquitous. Then there is the fascination with colonizing Mars.

Kimbal Musk, 42, is a year younger than Elon and a very successful businessman and entrepreneur in his own right. But he admits the pair, who grew up in Pretoria, South Africa before moving to Canada to study and then the US, have a slightly different take on the world of business: “We have similar views …[though] his are stratospheric, while mine are more in the ground.”

Food is a dominant theme in Kimbal Musk’s personal and business interests. He is a health-conscious chef, restaurant owner with his own sense of mission about subjects close to his heart: linking people’s food to their communities and tackling childhood obesity.

In an interview with the Guardian he speaks about his hopes for his food projects - and the inspiration he gets from his brother. The younger Musk, in addition to his work as a philanthropist, investor and entrepreneur, is a board member at Tesla, SpaceX, the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center and Chipotle Mexican Grill.