The man who lived in AOL for 2 months
After completing a four-month incubator program at AOL’s Palo Alto campus, Eric Simons discovered that his badge still worked so he decided to live there. “I couldn’t afford to live anywhere,” Simons recalled. “I startedliving out of AOL’s headquarters.”
For someone with neither money nor an aversion to sleeping on others’ couches, the AOL building had plenty of allure. “They had a gym there with showers,” Simons said. “I’d take a shower after work. I was like – I could totally work here…They have food upstairs, they have every drink on tap. This would be a sweet place to live.” Continue reading