For 11 years, Arianna Huffington was the public face of The Huffington Post, the news site she created, nurtured and then sold. In August, she announced her decision to step down as its editor-in-chief to focus on a new health and wellness startup. Her farewell message to the staff focused on leaving behind a business that now has a life of its own.
“Great companies always succeed beyond their founder,” she said. “Even though HuffPost bears my name, it is absolutely about all of you and about this amazing team we’ve been for over 11 years.”
Huffington is neither the first nor the last entrepreneur to leave behind a business, but when it comes to deciding to sell, having confidence in the future success of the company you’ve built is the easy part. What keeps a lot of entrepreneurs from moving on to the next big idea is fear.
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