A 19-year-old managed to squat in the AOL office for 2 months! Find out how he got away with it!

A 19-year-old managed to squat in the AOL office for 2 months! Find out how he got away with it!

Like the majestic but mysterious chameleon, you too can slip past watchful eyes and get the most out of your surroundings, free of of charge. All you have to do is act like you belong and blend in. That's exactly what 19-year-old Eric Simons did for a couple months of free rent.


He's a Chicago entrepreneur who participated in AOL's K12 program that helps incubate up and coming tech minds. However, when the program ended, he learned that the badges still worked for the Palo Alto office, granting him access anywhere. He decided that's where he would set up camp while he worked on his startup.


He was able to pull it off by sleeping on a couch outside of the night guard's path, work until everyone was out of the office, hit the office's gym at 7a.m. And used the shower when everyone started to show up (he got in really good shape since this was essential), and spending only $30 in his first month.


Eventually a guard caught on and he was kicked out at 6 a.m. One morning. AOL's response was "It was always our intention to facilitate entrepreneurial-ism in the Palo Alto office—we just didn't expect it to work so well."


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