Arianna Huffington To Leave Huffington Post For New Billionaire-Backed Wellness Startup

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Arianna Huffington is leaving The Huffington Post to focus on a new venture-backed wellness startup, she announced on Thursday.

The media mogul will step down as editor-in-chief of the online news platform she founded in 2005 to lead Thrive Global, which will offer corporate training and workshops on stress reduction. The company has started piloting its programs at professional services giant Accenture ACN -0.32%.

Thrive Global isn’t Huffington’s first foray into health and well-being. The past few years have seen her turn her attention to sleep as the antidote to modern burnout.

She published a book on the subject, ‘Thrive,’ in 2014 after a “personal wake-up call” in the form of a broken cheekbone and gash on her face when she suffered a fall due to exhaustion.

“Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success – money and power – has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers,” she wrote on her own site.
She followed that up with New York Times NYT +0.79% bestseller ‘The Sleep Revolution’ in 2015, examining both the science of sleep and our “cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted.”

Huffington has already raised a Series A round of funding featuring big-name backers, including four billionaires: Sean Parker of Facebook FB -0.04% and Spotify; investor and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen; Alibaba’s Jack Ma via Blue Pool Capital; and Ray Dalio, who runs the world’s biggest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.

The Series A round was led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, the seed-stage firm founded by early Huffington collaborators. Partners Kenneth Lerer and Eric Hippeau were, respectively, the cofounder and CEO of The Huffington Post.

In Thursday’s announcement, Huffington — a regular on Forbes’ list of the 100 Most Powerful Women — said Thrive Global would launch after the election in November


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