Jim Goodnight Coverage

Employees could be a big beneficiary of an IPO by SAS through stock options
SAS employees may finally get a chance to share - beyond salary and benefits - in the bounty of the $3 billion-a-year software firm that calls Cary home for thousands of workers. Will stock options be made available?

SAS puts in place plan to go public via stock offering in 2024
SAS, which has been a privately held company since its launch in 1976, is making moves to go public with a stock offering in 2024. How much of the company might be sold, however, was not specified.

Not for sale? Don’t rule out a SAS deal yet – Goodnight has other options
Just because SAS owner and Chief Executive Officer Jim Goodnight told employees that the global software firm isn’t for sale doesn’t mean he won’t pursue other options to make some kind of deal to boost his fortune and that of fellow cofounder and minority owner John Sall.

Goodnight says SAS not for sale; Broadcom talks over, says report
SAS is not for sale, says CEO and majority owner Jim Goodnight and talks with Broadcom have broken off, according to a report.

Attorney’s warning on SAS: If Goodnight sells he can’t protect his legacy
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If Goodnight sells SAS, here's the company he should sell to ...
Jim Goodnight and John Sall have become billionaires and have built an enduring legacy for success at SAS. That's why I don't believe Broadcom is the best company to acquire the global software firm. Here's my two cents worth.

SAS partnering with Microsoft, will work with Red Hat, projects growth in 2021
SAS anticipates growth in 2021, led by partnership with Microsoft Azure Cloud, and potential collaboration with Red Hat.

The state of SAS: After 5 years of flat revenue, growth may be returning in 2021
Revenues have been flat or declined for five consecutive years at software giant SAS, something that would make any public company executive cringe. But SAS is privately held by billionaires Jim Goodnight and John Sall. And the payoff - renewed growth - may be at hand.

Report: Epic Games CEO now North Carolina's richest person, passing Jim Goodnight
North Carolina has a new richest person - Tim Sweeney, CEO and founder of Epic Games. He has surpassed longtime leader Jim Goodnight. So says new figures from Forbes, which tracks the world's richest people.

Fortune rebounding, Jim Goodnight widens lead over Tim Sweeney as NC's richest person
Jim Goodnight, cofounder and CEO of global software firm SAS, remains the richest person in North Carolina and has expanded his lead over Tim Sweeney, the CEO and founder of nearby Epic Games.

Report: 1,000 richest recover wealth lost in pandemic; 3 NC billionaires are richer
Nine months. That's how long it took the world's top 1,000 billionaires to recoup their fortunes after the coronavirus pandemic hit. And a check of other data finds that North Carolina's three billionaries are even richer.

Epic Games' CEO closes on Jim Goodnight as richest person in NC
Tim Sweeney, the CEO and founder of Epic Games, appears well on his way to surpassing Jim Goodnight, the cofounder and CEO of SAS, as the richest person in North Carolina.

NC billionaires Sweeney, Goodnight, Sall face $800M hit under 'Make Billionaires Pay' proposal
North Carolina's three billionaires would pay more than $810 million in taxes under a proposed law from US Senator Bernie Sanders that would hit some of the world's wealthiest people whose fortunes have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cary billionaires Goodnight, Sall see wealth soar 40% during pandemic, Forbes says
US billionaires have become $565 billion richer since March 18, according to a report published Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank,. Among those getting much richer are Jim Goodnight and John Sall, cofounders of Cary-based SAS.

Jim Goodnight, CNBC’s ‘godfather of AI,’ sees ‘computer vision’ as next big advance
Jim Goodnight, one of the first to develop and then pursue data analytics dating back to his days as a professor at N.C. State, is now the “godfather” of Artificial Intelligence, according to CNBC. And heres the big development he sees coming.

SAS, Goodnight keep demonstrating the power to do good
As Red Hat changed its world-famous red fedora logo this week, it's also time for SAS to change some branding - its slogan. Here's why.

Jim Goodnight: 'I can't retire yet - my golf game is terrible'
Jim Goodnight insists that he's not retiring as CEO of SAS, the software giant he has led the way in creating since his days at NCSU as a professor in 1976.

Red Hat, SAS leaders push for more slots for students in NC Pre-K
In response to a study out of Duke University that shows pre-kindergarten helps children succeed at least through eighth grade, a group of North Carolina CEOs has pulled together a series of recommendations to give that advantage to more students.

CEOs: Good Pre-K a sure way out of poverty
SAS CEO Jim Goodnight is passionate about Pre-K as a path out of poverty.