An investment bank walks into Cannes. A holdco walks out.

June 22, 2026

An investment bank walks into Cannes. A holdco walks out.

Walk the Croisette on the first morning of Cannes Lions and the whole apparatus has reassembled itself, as it always has — more or less. Meta at the Plage Barrière Le Majestic. Amazon at its port. Pinterest and its Manifestival, a word that should not exist and yet somehow does, and somehow fits. Spotify, Salesforce,

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