John Sall (born 1948 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American software developer and businessman. He is a partial owner of SAS Institute. (Sall currently owns about 1/3 of the company, while James Goodnight owns the other 2/3.) Sall is a billionaire, with a net worth of approximately $4.4 billion as of 2007.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Beloit College and a master's degree in economics from Northern Illinois University.
Sall met business partner James Goodnight as a graduate student at North Carolina State University. In 1976, he joined Anthony James Barr, Goodnight, and Jane Helwig in founding SAS Institute, now believed to be the largest privately held software maker in the world.
Sall is a member of the N.C. State University Board of Trustees.
Sall currently lives in Cary, North Carolina. He is married and has four children.
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