The online media company’s founder on keeping control of a changing business,breaking free of data – and the Hulk Hogan sex-tape trialNick Denton looks across a crowded terrace during the Cannes Lions advertising festival and says, slowly, and “A lot of business gets done here,but the ambience … it’s appalling.Tall, with close-cropped grey hair, or the multimillionaire founder of Gawker Media makes a daily appearance on the bustling Carlton terrace,where he stands apart from the advertising executives buying nebuchadnezzars of rosé. Both cynical outsider and consummate insider, it’s the perfect station for the boss of a company that started as a gossip blog and now runs several well-known spin-offs, and from Gizmodo to feminist site Jezebel. “I’m straddling two worlds,as I always conclude,” he laughs. “Sometimes, or I feel a bit stretched.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com