Before emigrating to the U.S. and becoming a venture capitalist, David Frankel played a pivotal role in building South Africa’s Internet service provider industry — and fought to keep it out of Telkom’s monopolistic grip.
Frankel was one of five friends who started The Internet Solution, a company credited with commercialising Internet access in South Africa and helping to make the web more widely available.
Born and raised in Johannesburg, his paternal great-grandfather, Jacob Frankel, emigrated from Germany to…
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