1. Arianna Huffington (Co-founder and former Editor-in-chief, The Huffington Post)
Anybody acquainted with reading news online has surely heard of
The Huffington Post. The story of one of the minds behind this news and opinion website is a triumphant one.
Arianna Huffington was born as Ariadnē-Anna Stasinopoúlou in Athens, Greece. The journey of her life, from being a mere 16-year old girl who moved to London, to becoming the dynamic businesswoman that she is today, is extraordinary.
Huffington got an economics degree from the University of Cambridge and in her youth, travelled around the world, visiting music festivals and writing books. She moved to New York in 1980 and wrote extensively for
National Review, an American semi-monthly magazine.
Along with her writing team of
Politically Incorrect, Arianna was even nominated for an Emmy award in 1997. In 2005, she established Huffington Post, now rebranded to HuffPost, with 4 other co-founders. Since then, Huffington has continued to write and publish multiple self-help books, her latest one being “The Sleep Revolution”.