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Article: No ordinary cable guys: Ralph and Brian Roberts, a father-and-son team, have wired Comcast for the future. (Comcast Corp.)(Company Profile)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- July 8, 1996
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When Ralph Roberts was raising his five children in suburban Philadelphia in the 1960s, he never encouraged them to follow him into what was then the fledgling cable television business. As a result, four of his kids branched out into other careers; but the second-youngest child, Brian, was different. "This kid was only interested in business from the time he could talk," recalls Roberts, the 76-year-old founder and chairman of Comcast Corp., America's third-largest cable company, behind TCI and Time Warner. "When he was 10, I used to take him with me to negotiate a bank loan or a business deal, and he would sit in the corner quietly and listen. By the time he got to be 18, ...