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Herbert Wertheim

United States 87 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Investments
Residence
Coral Gables, Florida
Education
Brevard Community College (Associate in Arts/Science)
Southern College of Optometry (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Southern College of Optometry (Doctorate)
Marital Status
Divorced
Children
2

Assets

  • Alphabet
    1,187,000 shares @ -
    -
    GOOGL-US
  • Apple
    4,087,000 shares @ -
    -
    AAPL-US
  • GE Vernova
    266,259 shares @ -
    -
    GEV-US
  • General Electric
    1,054,191 shares @ -
    -
    GE-US
  • Google Inc. (Cl C)
    651,460 shares @ -
    -
    GOOG-US
  • Heico
    4,075,471 shares @ -
    -
    HEI-US
  • Heico Corporation Class A
    2,542,268 shares @ -
    -
    HEI.A-US
  • Meta Platforms
    165,100 shares @ -
    -
    META-US
  • Microsoft
    1,325,416 shares @ -
    -
    MSFT-US

Biography

Herbert "Herbie" Wertheim is an optometrist and inventor who built a fortune over five decades of investing in stocks.

Wertheim, who is dyslexic and struggled in school, joined the U.S. Navy at age 17 after facing truancy charges.

He founded and still runs Brain Power Inc., a manufacturer of optical tints for eyeglasses; it holds more than 100 patents and copyrights.

Since 1970, he has invested his profits from Brain Power into the stock market and is the largest individual shareholder in aerospace firm Heico.

About

As a child, Wertheim ran away from home, finding work picking oranges in Florida or living with the Seminole Indians.

In 1969, he invented an eyeglass tint for plastic lenses that would filter out and absorb dangerous UV rays.

As a young NASA engineer at Cape Canaveral, he designed an automatic dipping machine to make 15-inch, no-drip beeswax candles.