Together the horsemen employ about 418,000 employees—the population of Minneapolis.5 If you combine the value of the Four Horsemen’s public shares of stock, it comes to $2.3 trillion.6 That means our 2.0 version of Minneapolis contains nearly as much wealth as the gross domestic product of France, a developed nation of 67 million citizens.7 This affluent city will thrive while all the rest of Minnesota scrounges for investment, opportunity, and jobs.
