AOL Squatter: Young Entrepreneur Caught Living in Offices [VIDEO]

A 19-year-old entrepreneur has been caught living and working out of AOL‘s Palo Alto, Calif. offices, putting in long hours to get his startup off the ground. Sure, companies pride themselves in having employees with intense work ethics, but this guy wasn’t even an AOL employee at the time.

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Eric Simons — who stayed at the office for two months, crashing on office couches, eating the company’s food and exercising every morning at the gym — was previously a member of a tech incubator program called Imagine K12, which is how he gained access to the building.

The AOL squatter stayed at the facilities while working on his own company, Class Connect, a startup he pioneered to help teachers teach more effectively.

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Simons only spent about $30 a month squatting at AOL offices. His stay ended when he was finally caught by a manager.

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The company is now completely moved out of its Palo Alto pad, and into the much more spacious Menlo Park facility it broke ground on last year.

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This story originally published on Mashable here.

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