Arianna Huffington grew up in Greece in a poor family.
Money was scarce. She dreamt of going to a famous University in the UK and everyone said she cannot make it.
Did she go, let us see.
She later started the Huffington Post. Everyone said she will fail.
Yet, she grew it to millions of visitors and sold it to AOL for $300+ Million.
What you could learn from this episode:
- How her mother raised Arianna even though they were short of money
- What her mother made them believe about their dreams.
- How she overcame her self-doubt and became confident.
- What she learnt after a disgraceful failure
- The mentors who taught her how to write.
- Her first website to protest a political issue.
- The future she foresaw with the then nascent blogs and the internet
- How she got her idea.
- How she differentiated herself from other news sites.
- How she handled herself when critics criticized her badly.
- The first break for the Huffington Post.
