Huffington Post founder leaves site to create health & wellness startup

Arianna Huffington, the co-founder of the Huffington Post, is turning her attention in a new direction.

She announced on Twitter last week that she'll be stepping down as editor-in-chief of the news site to focus on running her new venture, health and wellness startup Thrive Global.

I thought HuffPost would be my last act. But I’ve decided to step down as HuffPost’s editor-in-chief to run my new venture, Thrive Global.

— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) August 11, 2016

She said that the startup's mission will be to change the way people work and live "by ending the collective delusion that burnout is a necessary price for success."

Thrive Global's mission is to change the way we work & live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is a necessary price for success.

— Arianna Huffington (@ariannahuff) August 11, 2016

Verizon Communications Inc owns the Huffington Post through AOL.

After Verizon bought AOL in June 2015, Huffington renewed her contract to stay on as the site's editor-in-chief and president through 2019.

But she said she "couldn't do justice to both companies."

No immediate word on who would succeed Huffington as editor-in-chief. — Reuters