Mark Carnegie, a visionary narcissist, almost drowned in Africa
Sure bitcoin’s a bubble, says the venture capitalist. But unlike the rest of your portfolio, it’s on the right side of an epochal shift in finance. From the upcoming March issue out on February 25.
“I don’t want to look like a f---ing narcissist,” Mark Carnegie says. “Well, the truth is I am a f---ing narcissist; I just don’t want to sound like one.”
Close friends – there aren’t many – call him Cargs. It isn’t easy to categorise the 60-year-old bachelor. Labels he doesn’t dispute include venture capitalist, philanthropist, pseudo-intellectual, hunter, devoted father, failed husband, loudmouth, attention-seeker, egotist. At this moment, though, he’s a man in need of laundry.
