77. JAMES GOODNIGHT

$7.2 BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: * SOURCE: SOFTWARE AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: CARY, NC PHILANTHROPY SCORE: After the North Carolina State University professor met student John Sall (No. 225) in the 1960s, the two cofounded statistical software firm SAS in 1976. Today it’s a $3.3 billion (revenues) company with software used by more than 83,000 organizations around the world. In March it announced it was investing $1 billion in AI over the next three years, including funds for an accelerator program that offers training and certification programs to business leaders and data scientists.