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Kimbal Musk
South African
Businessman
Born:
Sep 20
,
1972
About
Community
Food
People
Time
You
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I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.
Kimbal Musk
Attitude
Rest
Valley
Easy
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Pretty
Obnoxious
Had
Know
Doing
Going
No one wins in the industrial food system.
Kimbal Musk
Food
System
Wins
No-One
Industrial
If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.
Kimbal Musk
Food
You
Speak
Language
Vegan
Joint
Same
Just
Fast
Fast Food
The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.
Kimbal Musk
Food
Problem
Thrive
System
Fact
Industrial
The Problem With
Transparency
Zero
Growing up, I cooked in the house, and when I cooked, everyone would sit down and eat, and it was just kind of the way I connected with my family.
Kimbal Musk
Family
Sit
Down
Everyone
Way
Kind
Would
Eat
House
Up
Just
Just Kind
Cooked
Connected
Growing
Growing Up
I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.
Kimbal Musk
You
Cooking
People
Better
Sometimes
Cheese
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Mac
Would
Throw
Over
Come
Parties
Than
Get
Just
Used
University
When you think about basketball, and you watch someone like Michael Jordan play basketball - even if you're a baseball player, there's still a lot to learn from there.
Kimbal Musk
You
Think
About
Someone
Jordan
Like
Learn
Still
Lot
Michael
Michael Jordan
Even
Baseball
Baseball Player
Play
Play Basketball
Watch
Player
Basketball
Kids gave Elon a very hard time, and it had a huge impact on his life.
Kimbal Musk
Life
Time
Gave
Kids
Impact
Had
His
Huge
Very
Huge Impact
Hard
Hard Time
It's pretty rough in South Africa. It's a rough culture. Imagine rough - well, it's rougher than that.
Kimbal Musk
Culture
South Africa
Pretty
Well
South
Than
Africa
Rough
Imagine
At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.
Kimbal Musk
Car
Community
Think
One Or Two
Tesla
Go
Sell
Going
Two
The question is not 'Why advertise in realtime?' The question is, 'Who are the brands and businesses that are going to be built off the realtime web?'
Kimbal Musk
Web
Advertise
Built
Question
Off
Brands
Going
Who
Businesses
Why
Publishers can use realtime ad technology to build their brand on the realtime web. Realtime ad technology gets their hottest content in front of users seconds after it is published, ensuring that their content gets shared and becomes viral before their competitors.
Kimbal Musk
Technology
Build
Before
Viral
Seconds
Ensuring
Web
Shared
Hottest
Content
Becomes
Brand
Gets
Front
After
Use
Users
Published
Publishers
Ad
Competitors
Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.
Kimbal Musk
Food
Community
Through
Mission
Young people, especially, are turning away from McDonald's towards healthy, locally-sourced options like Next Door and Sweetgreen.
Kimbal Musk
People
Healthy
Young
Towards
Like
Options
Door
McDonald
Young People
Turning
Next
Next Door
Away
Microwave sales have plateaued as people realize that reheated TV dinners give us no joy.
Kimbal Musk
People
Joy
TV
Dinners
Give
Sales
Microwave
Realize
Us
The reality is that we connect through food, and we have the opportunity to do it three times a day.
Kimbal Musk
Food
Day
Reality
Opportunity
Three
Through
Times
Connect
After I broke my neck, I began thinking more about The Kitchen: How can we come up with some way to make real food more affordable? Food that's locally-grown, if possible, fundamentally nourishing to the body, nourishing to the planet.
Kimbal Musk
Food
Thinking
Way
Broke
Possible
Some
About
More
Kitchen
Come
Make
How
Real
Began
Up
Affordable
After
Planet
Body
Nourishing
Fundamentally
Neck
We want to replace all the T.G.I. Friday's, Applebee's - at a price point that is arguably even lower than those guys.
Kimbal Musk
Those
Guys
Point
Arguably
Price
Friday
Replace
Than
Want
Lower
Even
It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.
Kimbal Musk
Failure
You
Think
Risk
Only
Chance
There's no doubt about it: people want local, real food.
Kimbal Musk
Food
People
Doubt
Local
No Doubt
About
Real
Want
Start with the young, work with them until they are adults, and they will demand real food.
Kimbal Musk
Work
Food
Will
Young
Adult
Demand
Until
Real
Them
Start
People always ask what kind of restaurant we have, and it's like a five-minute conversation. The short answer is, 'We're creating community through food.' That's the big idea we had, the product we're exporting. And it has paid off.
Kimbal Musk
Food
Conversation
People
Big
Community
Kind
Restaurant
Through
Had
Idea
Like
Answer
Always
Off
Big Idea
Five-Minute
Short
Ask
Creating
Product
Paid
Exporting
Building one garden in L.A. - it might be a nice gesture - but it won't make a difference. We have to start to change the culture of the community.
Kimbal Musk
Change
Garden
Culture
Building
Gesture
Community
Nice
Make
Make A Difference
Difference
Might
Start
Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.
Kimbal Musk
Time
Food
Me
People
Young
System
About
Perceived
Contact
Industrial
Issues
Articulate
Anything
Inability
Frustrated
Young People
It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.
Kimbal Musk
Success
Food
Progress
Down
Relatively
Complex
Easy
More
Join
Towards
Accelerator
Up
Pathway
Company
Tech
Set
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