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| Subject: LOL: Teen entrepreneur squatted at AOL for two months undetected ... and built a business Mon May 28, 2012 3:21 am | |
| Eric Simons is the kind of young entrepreneur who will do anything to make it.
So secretly squatting at the headquarters of internet giant AOL late last year until he was caught wasn't out of the question. Advertisement: Story continues below
Simons, now 20, has revealed to technology news site CNET how he lived at AOL's headquarters in Palo Alto, California, for two months last year while he was 19, eating the company's free food and enjoying staff gym access.
He also used the company's lockers for storing his clothes and laundromat for cleaning them, and slept on couches outside security patrol areas, all while building a technology start-up of his own.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/teen-entrepreneur-squatted-at-aol-for-two-months-undetected--and-built-a-business-20120528-1ze96.html#ixzz1w99oE1Ie
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