A St. Paul bookkeeper bought the store he balanced the books for, plastered his family's name on it, and left it to all nine of his kids. Three generations later, they still won't sell.
A Saint Paul private equity shop is betting that warehouses, refrigerated trucks and neighborhood restaurants - not startups - are where patient money still compounds. Its promise to investors is a structure where the firm wins only when they do.

From Saint Paul City Hall to global reinsurance, Erin Dady has built a career around a deceptively practical idea: institutions earn trust by making their purpose visible in the places they serve.