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TechCrunch Live Podcast: How to battle burnout and profit off human thriving, according to Thrive Global’s Ariana Huffington

On this week’s TechCrunch Live podcast, TechCrunch+ Editor In Chief Alex Wilhelm led the interview portion of our show. Alex spoke to Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid and founder & CEO o

Hear why Kleiner Perkins went all in on Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global on TechCrunch Live

The best part of TechCrunch Live is that we grab folks who we chat with privately and bring those conversations to you as they happen. It’s a great way to tear the curtain back a bit and get unvarni

HuffPost is reportedly on the auction block

Late last night the Financial Times reported that HuffPost, arguably one of the crown jewels of Verizon Media Group’s remaining network of media properties (which includes TechCrunch), is up for

Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too o

Uber loses Arianna Huffington and Benchmark’s Matt Cohler as board members

Uber has lost two of its board members today. Arianna Huffington, CEO at Thrive Global, and Benchmark General Partner Matt Cohler‘s resignations from the board went into effect today, according

Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is teaming up with Zenefits

Thrive has partnered with Zenefits to expand the reach of its wellness content.

Some of the top female founders in the U.S. are backing the latest Female Founders Fund

Roughly five years after the launch of its first fund in 2013, Female Founders Fund (F3) has closed on $27 million for its latest seed fund — backed by some of the startup world’s top w

Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global raises $30M so you can work less and sleep more

Arianna Huffington wants you to work smarter, not harder. She believes a corporate mentality that rewards burning the midnight oil is actually reducing productivity, by causing burnout. Lack of sleep

Uber-SoftBank deal “very likely” to be finalized in the next week

The Uber-SoftBank deal is almost done, said Arianna Huffington on stage at WSJ D.Live in Laguna Beach on Monday. When pressed whether SoftBank’s multi-billion dollar investment in Uber could be

Uber details early steps to change culture, and ongoing COO search

Uber held a special press call on Tuesday, hosted by board member Arianna Huffington and staffed with three of its highest ranking female staff. The call was pretty clearly an attempt to counter-messa

Uber board member Arianna Huffington releases statement after company all-hands

Following a scathing report of sexual harassment at Uber over the weekend, CEO Travis Kalanick hosted an all-hands meeting today, along with board member Arianna Huffington and Chief Human Resources O

Arianna Huffington leaves Huffington Post for new wellness startup

Arianna Huffington, the cofounder and Editor-in-Chief at the Huffington Post, is today stepping down from her role at the HuffPost to focus on a new startup called Thrive Global. Huffington announced

Don’t want your startup to fail? Arianna Huffington tells founders to go to bed

Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder you can’t afford to get enough sleep,&

TechCrunch Davos Coverage Going Live

TechCrunch has arrived at the World Economic Forum in Davos to cover the intersection of technology, innovation and public policy. Watch us today (in just a few short minutes) as we interview luminari

The Girl Who Couldn’t Nap And Said She Never Had To

Once upon a time, in a land 3,000 miles away, Alexia wrote a post titled <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/03/napcrunch/">Arianna Wants To Put A Nap Room In TechCrunch HQ. Lol.</a> It was in ref

Arianna Wants To Put A Nap Room In TechCrunch HQ. LOL.

Silicon Valley absolutely, positively doesn't need a nap room because in theory we don't sleep, let alone nap (and if we do need to nap -- like in an emergency -- we take that shiz home, far far away

An Hour In A Room With Arianna Huffington (Guest Starring Biz Stone!)

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/screen-shot-2011-04-14-at-7-02-27-pm.png" />As part of the AdTech conference yesterday, a gaggle of press got together to talk to Huffington P