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, “A lot of business gets done here, but the ambience … it’s appalling.”Tall, with close-cropped grey hair, 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.