Eric Simons was chosen to be part of an AOL program to foster entrepreneurship . His venture capital funds ran out while he was working from AOL 's Silicon Valley office . He decided that if he could not find a job, then he would start his own company and make money by selling the products on eBay. `` If you were to invest in a company , would you invest in someone that closed up shop and went home ? '' ` If I did n't do that , we would n't have been able to build '' his product , he says .
Eric Simons was chosen to be part of an AOL program to foster entrepreneurship . His venture capital funds ran out while he was working from AOL 's Silicon Valley office . He decided that if he could not find a job, then he would start his own company and make money by selling the products on eBay. ` If I did n't do that , we would n't have been able to build '' his product , he says .