Mr Gabriel Modest, the proprietor of Mr G collection. That is what sums 24 year-old Gabriel Modest’s rise from a ‘mutura’ seller to the owner of a jewelry empire in under two years. His entrepreneurial journey started in 2013 while a student at Kenyatta University where he was studying economics and finance. After deep soul searching, doing business won over pursuing education and he decided to focus on his ‘mutura’ business. At around the same time, his brother, who lives in Tanzania and owns a mine, started sending him rough gem stones and tasked him to sell them.

Source: Daily Nation August 26, 2016 09:40 UTC