EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Roy Carroll, Greensboro’s oligarch

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK: Roy Carroll, Greensboro’s oligarch

In its most recent installment of its “Billionaires” series, Forbes magazine profiled Roy Carroll, the richest man in the Triad (probably) and the only one who owns a superyacht (again, probably). The story is rife with typical myth-building tropes: how he bought his first house at 14 with money saved up from mowing lawns, how he dropped out of college, his collection of limited-edition Ferraris and an obligatory reference to Warren Buffet, the …