Arianna Huffington, who founded digital media juggernaut the Huffington Post 11 years ago, is stepping down from her post as editor-in-chief to focus on her global health and wellness startup.
Huffington will leave the company in coming weeks to run Thrive Global, a company focused on working with employers to improve the well-being of their staffers, the Wall Street Journal first reported. When the venture secured Series A funding last week, Huffington said it became clear she could not carry on with both ventures.
“I really thought I could do both, but as we started building it up, I realized that it really needed my full attention,” she told the Journal. “It is important to know when one door closes and another opens and I felt that moment had arrived.”
Huffington broke into the health business with a string of books focused on better living. Her latest, “The Sleep Revolution,” was published in April.
The 66-year-old Greek native co-founded Huffington Post in 2005 with Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and the late Andrew Breitbart, each of whom went on to become major players in digital media.
She got her start as an anti-Clinton back in the 90s. How appropriate that she won’t be around for the second Clinton administration.
Maybe HuffPo can stop publishing anti-science, anti-vax bullshit now?
The Huff-post is edited?
> “Huffington will leave the company in coming weeks to run Thrive Global, a company focused on working with employers to improve the well-being of their staffers”
One way to “improve the well-being of their staffers” might be to actually pay the people who create your product.
Pay no attention to newbie (actually beej) lazyriver. It won’t be around long.