{"id":2882,"date":"2016-04-28T12:19:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T06:49:13","slug":"arianna-huffington-joins-board-directors-squad-uber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=2882","title":{"rendered":"Arianna Huffington joins the Board of Directors\u2019 squad of Uber."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Arianna Huffington has erected one of the most successful and innovative media company in the world. And she has now joined the Uber\u2019s board.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uber gets Arianna Huffington, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, on board to join its Board of Directors.\u00a0 CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick announced this in a blog post yesterday. He said that she could bring a much needed skill set to the company.<\/p>\n<p>Kalanick also said, \u201cHuffington\u2019s ability as a storyteller is invaluable for an engineer like me, whose natural tendency is to rely on data. As I\u2019ve discovered, that doesn\u2019t always work perfectly.So it\u2019s Arianna\u2019s emotional intelligence that I am most excited to learn from. I\u2019m confident she will bring some ethos and pathos to out Uber logos. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huffington has a good foothold in politics, besides being the bestseller author for her latest book, \u2018The Sleep Revolution\u2019.\u00a0 Collaboration with Toyota was also announced earlier this month by Huffington and Kalanick, to endorse the dangers of drowsy driving.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this video to witness how Arianna was welcomed into Uber family:<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-0II2ESntk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arianna Huffington is the founder and editor-in-chief of the most innovative media company in the world.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Huffington joins hands with Uber, to collaborate with Toyota so as to endorse the dangers of drowsy driving. <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Uber\u2019s CEO thinks that Huffington\u2019s storytelling ability would be invaluable for his company.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianna Huffington has erected one of the most successful and innovative media company in the world. And she has now joined the Uber\u2019s board. Uber gets Arianna Huffington, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, on board to join its Board of Directors.\u00a0 CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21],"tags":[70,564,289],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-start-up","tag-startup","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-uber"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/huffington.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2884,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/2884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}