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North Carolina – James Goodnight – $7.5 Billion

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The business analytics software of SAS, the creation of James Goodnight and fellow billionaire John Sall, is used by more than 70,000 companies, governments and universities across the globe. The company is a result of a project to analyze agricultural research at North Carolina State University, where Goodnight earned a Ph.D. in statistics. In 1976, the pair created SAS across the street from the university.

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