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Phillip Frost: Renaissance man of generic-medicine business
Dr Phillip Frost: A Renaissance man and billionaire with a passion for palm trees and profits
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For most Floridians, palm trees assume the same status that pigeons do in New York City. They are everywhere, but you barely notice them.
Not for Dr Phillip Frost. As we drive to his office in his white, 7 series BMW, Miami’s second-richest man and a 50-year resident can’t help but lecture me on more than a dozen varieties of palms sprouting like weeds from the lapses in pavement.
“See the fruit on that one hanging? It’s yellow. That’s a lady palm. Beautiful, isn’t it? And that’s a date palm in front. This is a Chinese fan palm—forms a fan like the elephant ear—and that is a sabal palm, flowering. Isn’t that pretty?” Then Frost decides to test my retention. “And those crooked ones are what?” After a few seconds he
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By Kevin Gale
When it comes to serial entrepreneur success among South Florida’s billionaires, Dr. Phillip Frost continues to lead the list.
Frost and a partner bought struggling Key Pharmaceuticals in 1972 and sold it to Schering-Plough for $835 million in 1986. He sold Ivax Corp. to Teva Pharmaceuticals in 2006 for $7.4 billion.
He is currently chairman and CEO of Opko Health, which saw revenue jump from $491.7 million in 2015 to $1.22 billion in 2016. He’s also chairman of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, which handles $144.3 billion in client assets.
Forbes ranks him 522nd among the world’s billionaires with a net worth of $3.2 billion. He and his wife, Patricia, a former high school principal and member of the State University System’s Board of Governors, have signed the Giving Pledge, started bygd Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates, to give away more than half their wealth. They have given $100 million to science, technology, engineering and mathematics progr
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Why did I major in French literature? I had never left the country, and the idea of learning a foreign language was appealing to me. And so, it was an opportunity to major in a subject that would at the same time permit me to take enough science courses so that if I had decided to go to medical school, I had that option.
I often say I could write a book about how chance meetings have been the story of my life — 95%.
I came to Florida to join the faculty at the medical school here at the University of Miami. I had an idea about a disposable (biopsy tool). I was able to sell the idea. And they gave me a little money, and I formed a company. And then by chance, inom bumped into a friend of mine from Philadelphia at the airport. He was in charge of sales for a small company called Key Pharmaceuticals. bygd the time we got to New York, we decided to put my little company tillsammans with Key Pharmaceuticals. Shortly after, I left the university to form a new de