Eric Simon was chosen to be part of an AOL program to foster entrepreneurship . His venture capital funding ran out while he was working from AOL 's Silicon Valley office . `` If you were to invest in a company , would you invest in someone that closed up shop and went home ? '' Simons spent the next two days sleeping , eating and showering at the office . ` ` If I did n't do that , we would n't have been able to build '' his product , he said .
Eric Simon was chosen to be part of an AOL program to foster entrepreneurship . His venture capital funding ran out while he was working from AOL 's Silicon Valley office . Simons spent the next two days sleeping , eating and showering at the office . ` ` If I did n't do that , we would n't have been able to build '' his product , he said .