Arianna Huffington

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Arianna Huffington is a Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman best known as the co-founder of The Huffington Post and the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. Born in Athens, Greece, she moved to the United Kingdom at age 16 to study economics at Girton College, Cambridge, where she became the first foreign and third female president of the Cambridge Union. In the 1980s, she moved to the United States and married Republican politician Michael Huffington, initially rising to prominence as a conservative commentator before transitioning to progressive politics. In 2005, she co-founded The Huffington Post, a pioneering news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely read media brands in the world. AOL acquired the platform in 2011 for $315 million, and she remained as President and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group until 2016. Driven by her personal experience with exhaustion and collapse, she founded Thrive Global in 2016, a corporate wellness and behavior-change technology platform aimed at ending the burnout epidemic. Huffington is also a prolific author of fifteen books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution, which advocate for well-being, mindfulness, and sleep. She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people and Forbes' Most Powerful Women list.

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