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Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL
CNET ^ | May 24, 2012 | Daniel Terdiman

Posted on 05/25/2012 4:29:50 PM PDT by jimbo123

For two months last fall, Eric Simons secretly took up residence inside the Internet giant's Palo Alto, Calif., campus, eating free food, enjoying gym access, and building a startup in the process.

It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling.

After working until 4 a.m, the 19-year-old entrepreneur had finally passed out. A few hours of sleep would help with the day ahead.

But unlike most people working at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif., campus who were surely still hours from showing up at the sprawling complex, Simons was already there. He'd been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company's food, and exercising and showering in its gym. And now, with an angry security guard bellowing at him, it was all over.

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1 posted on 05/25/2012 4:29:55 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Fire the security company. Hire the kid.

That was easy.

/johnny

2 posted on 05/25/2012 4:35:18 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: jimbo123

Bushs fault.


3 posted on 05/25/2012 4:37:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Some day our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: jimbo123

So, this is the Horatio Alger model for the modern age...

(sigh)


4 posted on 05/25/2012 4:42:49 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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hire him, but charge him rent. lol


5 posted on 05/25/2012 4:45:31 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: jimbo123

Hey, he’s not a welfare slacker.


6 posted on 05/25/2012 4:46:52 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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ping


7 posted on 05/25/2012 4:48:31 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: null and void

VC mention


8 posted on 05/25/2012 4:54:07 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (They told me I was gullible and I believed them.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Yep...


9 posted on 05/25/2012 4:54:49 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: jimbo123
Sounds like...


10 posted on 05/25/2012 4:55:44 PM PDT by montag813
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So venture capitalists are helping this kid? Sounds like a good thing.

However, aren't Obama and his supporters going around the country and bashing Romney because of Romney's work at investor company Bain?

I hope that the kid's company makes a lot of money for himself and makes a lot of other people rich like Romney is rich.

And can anybody buy a stake in the company yet? I want to be rich,too.

11 posted on 05/25/2012 5:09:23 PM PDT by john mirse
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You just have to like the kid! :)


12 posted on 05/25/2012 5:48:14 PM PDT by WellyP (REAL)
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