💰Daniel Frank Gerber Net worth: $1billion (Updated at 15 March 2019)
About
Creator of the best-selling line of baby food that was named after him.
Before Fame
He was a new father with a sick child, and he persuaded his father to use the family canning company to create strained baby food, taking the chore out of making the food at home.
Trivia
His baby food went national in 1928 with advertisements in Good Housekeeping and Parents Magazine, and by 1945 sales of his baby food exceeded that of the adult food.
Family Life
His father Frank Gerber owned the Fremont Canning Company to make produce for local markets.
Associated With
He and Jeno Paulucci both saw an untapped market for a new kind of food and launched whole businesses dedicated to filling it.
