Writer and entrepreneur Arianna Huffington she resigned as editor of the Huffington Post, the news site and blog aggregator he founded in 2005, to run Thrive Global, a new productivity and health company. Huffington wrote on Twitter: “I thought the HuffPost would be my last act. But I've decided to step down as editor of HuffPost to run my new company, Thrive Global. To everyone at HuffPost: You make it what it is. I'm filled with gratitude for the colleagues and friends I've made here."
Huffington also opened up about his new company, saying its mission is to "change the way we work and live by ending the perception that a nervous breakdown is the necessary price for success." Since she passed out once from too much tiredness, Huffington deals a lot with health and especially with the importance of sleep.
Arianna Huffington is 66 years old, was born in Athens – but also has American citizenship – and studied in Cambridge, UK. In the seventies he wrote several books, including a biography of Maria Callas and one of Pablo Picasso, and began to collaborate with some conservative newspapers. In the 1994s she became famous in the United States as a political commentator, supporting several Republican politicians – including her husband Michael Huffington, who ran for the Senate in 2003 – until in 2004 she ran as an independent candidate for governor of California, against the Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger (he withdrew before the election). In XNUMX she endorsed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and has held “left” positions ever since.
