Founder Profile
Daniel Aaron
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Daniel Aaron?
Daniel Aaron is a founder of Comcast Corporation, which was founded in 1963 with Ralph J. Roberts and Julian Brodsky.
- Company founded
- Comcast Corporation
- Founded
- 1963
- Co-founders
- Ralph J. Roberts and Julian Brodsky
Background
Aaron brought cable-industry operating experience to the founding team and focused on building and running Comcast's physical systems.
Founding Story
Daniel Aaron was a Comcast co-founder who fled Nazi Germany as a young man and later worked in the early cable industry. He joined Ralph Roberts and Julian Brodsky in buying the Tupelo, Mississippi system in 1963 and spent decades overseeing Comcast's cable operations, engineering and employee relations as the company grew from a single small system into a national operator. Daniel Aaron was born in 1926.
Sources
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- Comcast Corporation Form 10-K for fiscal year 2025 (Comcast Corporation)
- Comcast Reports 2nd Quarter 2026 Results (Comcast Corporation)