Friday, May 25, 2012

This Kid Spent Two Months Secretly Living in AOL's Offices

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It turns out there is at least one person who likes AOL—enough to even eat, sleep, shower, and live out of their Palo Alto HQ like some sort of Silicon Valley hobo for months. Meet Eric Simons.

Eric was a crappy high school student with bad grades. Eric turned this failure into an idea for a startup, ClassConnect, which he says makes it easier for teachers to find and improvise interesting new lesson plans. Cool! Eric got a little cash from and the opportunity to work on his project at AOL over a summer—then that cash ran ou and all of his friends went away to college. So, like any normal 19-year-old, Eric decided to live in AOL.

The two month luxury squat sounds pretty harrowing, as recounted to CNET...

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