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Student Secretly Lives Inside AOL- And Builds A Company

By Hank Campbell | May 28th 2012 01:54 AM | Print | E-mail

What do you do when the project you did is complete but your entry badge still works for the AOL Palo Alto campus and you have no place to live?

You sleep on couches there.

Eric Simons, age 19, managed to pull it off for two months before being caught by a security guard - he ate the free food, drank the free drink, worked out in the gym when he wasn't working, and took showers there.

And built his company.

Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL by Daniel Terdiman, CNET

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