I was an engineer at HuffPost. I believe the departure of Arianna is going to have a huge impact on the organization. Whether that's net positive or negative, o

I was an engineer at HuffPost. I believe the departure of Arianna is going to have a huge impact on the organization. Whether that's net positive or negative, only time will tell. Many of the company's significant initiatives seemed to come out in unpredictable bursts from the brain trust that formed Arianna's staff. The nominal product and engineering leadership was charged with implementing these initiatives, but subject to rapidly changing priorities. A lot of work was launched under time pressure and then scrapped shortly afterward. To be fair, a lot of the instincts behind those priorities were pretty ambitious and forward-thinking. But totally disconnected from the work of implementation. There's an opportunity to retain the positive aspects that kept HuffPost on the cutting edge (at least in some ways) and reform the churn and top-down approach. Or maybe the road is clear for the company to be fully assimilated into the Verizonscape.