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- 2/27/26Shareholders
The Sacred Appliance
Jona Bechtolt’s new installation is four microwaves spinning on a platter, each displaying video of something inside a microwave. It’s about the screen we all stopped watching, and why that might be…
- 2/24/26Games
The Bot That Finished Second
Every month, KmikeyM shareholders play a poker tournament. $50 buy-in. Real money. Real stakes. The second Tuesday of every month since 2020. (Join us!) On February 10, 2026, for the first time, an AI…
- 2/13/26Business
KmikeyM Names Austin as Custodian of the Degen Account
Austin has been appointed as custodian of the KmikeyM degen account. He will be managing the account’s shares and cash, trading to provide liquidity and make profits. This initiative integrates two…
- 8/30/25Shareholders
Membership
KmikeyM Memberships are here: a new system of shares and tiers that unlock trading tools, voting power, and insider access. From basic shareholder to boardroom seat, your level of involvement now…
- 8/2/25Uncategorized
Privacy and Governance
A proposal for governance of confidential projects, reflecting on the challenges faced after 17 years as a publicly traded person. A formal, time-based policy is suggested to categorize project…
- 7/28/25Business
Blippo+
Blippo+ has launched on Playdate. It’s a surreal streaming service from Planet Blip, part sci-fi TV experiment, and part video game. Created by YACHT with a dream team of collaborators (including me…
- 7/12/25Finance
Trapped in UnSAFE Conditions
When I learned that Sahil Lavingia, founder of Gumroad, volunteered with DOGE to help gut services at the VA, I faced an ethical crisis. Trapped in a SAFE with no exit, I offered to surrender my…
- 6/24/25Appearance
M.I.K.E. Community Bond Program
The MIKE trust protocol extends the KmikeyM community spirit through a new endorsement system. Benefits include reputation boosts from Mike, while violations result in endorsements being revoked.
- 11/16/24Mailing List
HBR S2E1: My Hamburger Restaurant
The podcast discusses McDonald’s E. coli concerns, shares insights on sustainability, features a case study, and discusses both new menu items and economic challenges.
- 2/20/24Mailing List
Build Week 2024
Last year we made a bunch of changes to the main page, to how you can buy shares, created new alerts, and started experimenting with Policy Votes. This year the focus is on building out features to…
- 1/29/24Mailing List
New Policies For Shareholder Control
As part of an ever-refining attempt to perfect experiment with my own process as a publicly traded person I’m updating the Policy Votes! The idea behind Policy Votes is “always-on” votes that change…
- 12/21/23Mailing List
The End of Year Spectacular!
This past summer we wrapped up the first season of the Hamburger Business Review podcast, but so much has happened we decided to do a Holiday Special Episode which just came out today. Click here or…
- 7/28/23Mailing List
📧 Portland GHH Meetup
Hello Shareholders and Friends, Three updates today: 🥃 Guerrilla Happy Hour I’m wrapping up my time in Portland, OR and on Saturday July 29th Alex and I are hosting a Guerrilla Happy Hour. Come by…
- 6/29/23Mailing List
📧 Los Angeles GHH Meetup
Hello Shareholders! Are you in LA? Then I want to give you money. Well, kind of. On Friday, June 30th shareholder Alex Mahan and I are hosting a Guerrilla Happy Hour at The Fable in Eagle Rock from…
- 6/7/22Events
2022 Shareholder Summit
The 2022 Shareholder Summit was on June 11th, 2022. The event was a live series of fireside chats with various stakeholders. Fireside Chats Josh and Jed Josh is my oldest friend and has been a…
- 4/29/22Shareholders
2022 Auction of New Shares
Welcome to the 2022 Auction of New KmikeyM Shares! This is an explanation of how the auction will work. If you’re looking to submit a bid you can do that here. Background There are 100,000 shares of…
- 3/13/22KmikeyM
KmikeyM @ TEDxVienna
In October of 2021 I was able to go on stage at TEDxVienna and talk about how I became publicly traded. Thankfully they cut out the parts where I cried. I’ll write more on this later but I am excited…
- 11/11/21Charity
Veteran’s Day Fundraiser
Georgie and I are raising $1000 for This Able Veteran, a service dog organization benefitting United States military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. If you care about pets and…
- 7/29/21Roadshow
2021 North America Roadshow
In 2021 Kathryn and I drove from Los Angeles diagonally across the United States to Niagara-On-The-Lake, Canada. After spending time there we then drove south to Ocala, Florida. And then I drove back…
- 6/22/21Roadshow
Shareholder Roadshow
When a company is going to IPO they will often do a “roadshow” and make presentations on why they are a great investment to institutional investors. As a publicly traded person I am adopting a more…
- 5/7/21KmikeyM
2021 Shareholder Conference
REGISTER NOW On Saturday, May 15th we held the 2021 Shareholder Conference. The theme of the talks this year was Speculation, a term that has been interpreted in a few different ways. This year we had…
- 11/16/20Shareholders
RFC: Improve Tournaments Airtable
Here is a quick overview of the Shareholder Poker Tournament Airtable and my problem of having to enter the participants twice in order to get it to work. I think there is a better way, and it’s…
- 5/25/20CTRL ALTZ
CTRL ALTZ: Magic Cards
When shareholder Kyle Barry told me he was presenting at the 2020 Shareholder Conference on investing in Magic cards I asked if he had any for sale. He sold me a Taiga, which is now part of my…
- 4/8/20KmikeyM
2020 Shareholder Conference
On Saturday, May 16th from 12:00PM – 2:00PM PT, KmikeyM we held the first annual K5M Shareholder Conference. A free and completely virtually video conference! This conference, known as K5M Con 2020,…
- 3/25/20Shareholders
Zoom Checkin
We’re having semi-regular Zoom meetings with shareholders! Install Zoom and here is the login info for the next meeting: Next Meeting:Time: Apr 9, 2020 6:30pm (Pacific Time)…
- 6/30/19KmikeyM
Future Congress Keynote
The Future Congress Keynote I did in Wolfsburg Germany.
- 6/29/19Shareholders
K5M Dialup Clips
Recorded using Dialup Edited by Danielle Baskin Creative Commons music: Knife by CJ Aleezon Super Friendly by Kevin MacLeod Criticality by Pixelgipsy Garden Music by Kevin MacLeod Brittle Rille by…
- 6/12/19Shareholders
Teaser of Dialup Call
The first Dialup call was fantastic and I wanted to share a few snippets with you. I know that talking to a stranger on the phone is weird, but the first test of using this far exceeded any…
- 4/20/19Collaborators
Kriss Knapp: An Artistic Analysis
Kriss Knapp will be providing an artistic analysis for the stock price of some of the most emotional moments in my life. More information coming soon. This project will mostly be happening on…
- 10/20/17Press & Awards
Meet The Man Selling Influence Over His Personal Life Decisions
In an age of constant connectivity, it’s not uncommon to crowdsource a decision, asking friends, family and strangers on the internet for advice on mundane choices. But Mike Merrill has taken this…
- 9/26/17Press & Awards
The World’s First Publicly Traded Human Goes NSFW
By Leah Sottile For almost 10 years, Mike Merrill has sold shares of his very existence. Now he and his 600-plus shareholders are hoping an erotica scheme will boost his sagging stock price. If you…
- 10/18/14Shareholders
A Collective Review of The University
We received an email from author Calvin Wolf asking if we would review his new book The University, in which students sells shares of their future earnings in order to pay for college. We split the…
- 3/28/13Press & Awards
Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share
On January 26, 2008, a 30-year-old part-time entrepreneur named Mike Merrill decided to sell himself on the open market. He divided himself into 100,000 shares and set an initial public offering price…
- 3/25/11Events
Guerrilla Happy Hour
Economists will tell you that “incentives matter.” As an economic principle you want to find the smallest incentive to achieve the greatest possible outcome. This can be mathematically modeled for…
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