In a press release, Thrive Global says it will provide trainings, e-courses and present “scientific findings from experts in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, productivity, sports, and sleep.”
Huffington co-founded the news site with entrepreneur Jonah Peretti—founder of Buzzfeed—and Kenneth Lerer. Six years after the site went live, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for $315 million in 2011. In the deal, Huffington stayed on as president and editor-in-chief.
As Huffington moves into another phase of her life, she said leading both companies would be contradictory to her new startup’s mission.
“Running both companies would have involved working around the clock, which would be a betrayal of the very principles of Thrive I’ve been writing and speaking about,” she wrote. “To to truly thrive means knowing when the time has come to close one chapter and start the next, and for me that time has arrived.”
