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Arianna Huffington is an author, columnist, and businesswoman. She was a co-founder of The Huffington Post and the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. She is also the author of fifteen books. Time Magazine named her one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and she built a business she sold for $315 million.

In today’s episode, we’ll explore how Huffington became so successful in her entrepreneurial journey. We’ll discuss the tectonic shifts she leveraged and other secrets to her success.

Huffington’s Entrepreneurial Story


Early Life and Career

Arianna Huffington was born on July 14, 1950, in Athens Greece. At the age of 16, she moved to England. She studied at the University of Cambridge and earned an economics degree(Source: Britannica.com).

After she finished her education and lived in England and a few other places, Huffington moved to the U.S. and became involved in politics, writing books and articles, appearing on several radios and tv shows, and speaking at conventions (Source: Wikipedia.org).

Huffington Post

In 2005, Huffington co-founded the Huffington Post. When the site launched, “it was structured as a group blog, publishing the words of hundreds of guest contributors each week.” AOL acquired the Huffington Post in 2011 for $315 million, and Huffington became “President and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, a new venture that included all the content from the Website and AOL.” (Source: Britannica.com) In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize (source: Crain’s New York). In June 2015, Verizon Communications acquired AOL for US$4.4 billion and the site became a part of Verizon Media (source: PR Newswire).

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