19-Year-Old Squatted At AOL For 2 Months

New submitter mrnick writes "Eric Simons, 19 years old, was working at incubator Imagine K2 in Silicon Valley, which was hosted at AOL's Palo Alto campus. His grant money eventually ran out, but his access badge kept working, so he moved into AOL's office. He slept on a couch, took showers and washed clothes in the office gym, and ate for free in the cafeteria, all the while working on his new start-up. He was able to get away with this for two months before being discovered by security guard."

Comments

Isn't this a success story?

[JoeMerchant]

Isn't that the ultimate goal of the incubators: to get young kids to spend their whole life working on their startup...

Re:That's nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps he just wasn't smoking what you bunch were smoking.

Re:AOL Offices

[betterunixthanunix]

Especially when you consider this:

http://www.techspot.com/news/42121-60-of-aols-profits-come-from-misinformed-customers.html

We are talking about people who are so helplessly uninformed that they are paying for dialup service despite already paying for broadband. Working for AOL is basically working for a scam that is tricking older, less technically literate people out of their money.

Re:AOL still exists?

[betterunixthanunix]

AOL is still around, and there are still people paying for dialup service with them -- oftentimes people who are also paying for broadband service. AOL's brand is so strong among the technically illiterate that some people actually thing that AOL is the "Internet," is "Email," is "instant messenger," etc.