Meet David Grain, the Brooklyn postal worker's son who built a $2.5 billion telecom empire and joined the Forbes billionaire list in 2026

Billionaires Africa | 31.03.2026 23:25
David Grain grew up in Brooklyn as the youngest of seven children, watching his father run a trucking business on the side while working as a postal worker in Midtown Manhattan. The business was small by any measure, nothing like what David would eventually build. But it was enough to plant something durable in the youngest Grain child.