To Start An Agency Or To Work Inside One, That Is The Question

Hi Cindy,

Thank you so much for the Young Lions session at Cannes, it was so motivating! I would value your view on this: Now there are all the tools available to build your own thing, is time inside an agency still worth it? Stay, learn and build alongside, wait, or go all in now?

Three weeks back, I was at Cannes Lions, judging on the Dan Wieden Titanium Lions jury.

Cannes Lions asked me to do a session for their Young Lions program, called ‘Meet Your Hero’, which involved me talking through my personal advertising career journey, and sharing the lessons I learned along the way and the advice I would give to younger people in the industry accordingly.

One of the things I shared was…