The Profile: America's wind billionaire & the startup that failed at launch

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The late New York Times media columnist David Carr led a complicated life.

When I read his articles in my college journalism classes, he was a celebrated writer whose prose we all worshipped. He was also a recovering alcoholic and drug addict who had abused women.

In his 2008 memoir, The Night of the Gun, he writes: "If I said I was …