AOL squatter launches his company — no hiding out required
Former AOL squatter Eric Simons.
(Credit: Eric Simons)
If ever there was someone with an entrepreneurial spirit, it’s Eric Simons, known to many as the AOL squatter.
As CNET was first to report, Simons spent two months last year living surreptitiously at AOL’s Palo Alto, Calif., offices, surviving on the company’s kitchen fare, using its gym and locker room, and sleeping on its couches. All while working long days building a startup as part of an education-based incubator that had its offices in AOL’s building. Until he was caught by AOL security and thrown out of the building, that is.
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