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Eric Simons, a young entrepreneur from Chicago, secretly squatted at AOL’s Palo Alto campus for two months,

Here’s how he did it:

– He worked until everyone left the office.
– He found couches that were just outside the nighttime guards’ patrols, and slept on those.
– At around 7 a.m., Simons would head to the gym as the first employees arrived. Since working out every morning was essential to avoid getting caught, he got in great shape.
– The employees began to admire his work ethic. “There were so many people going in and out each day,” Simons said. “They’d say, ‘Oh, he just works, here, he’s working late every night. Wow, what a hard worker.’”
– During his first month he managed to spend only $30.- Eventually, a guard caught on. He found Simons and kicked him out, bellowing, at 6 a.m. one morning.

AOL’s response:  ”It was always our intention to facilitate entrepreneurialism in the Palo Alto office—we just didn’t expect it to work so well.”

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