K. Mike Merrill is the world’s first publicly traded person.
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Mike Merrill is the world’s first publicly traded person. Since 2008 he has allowed shareholders to buy shares in his life and vote on his decisions through the KmikeyM experiment. What began as a performance about finance has evolved into a long-running system for collective governance, personal transparency, and experimental economics.
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📺 My TEDxVienna Talk about becoming a publicly traded person.
📺 VICE: Meet the man selling influence over his personal life decisions
📺 Today Show: One-man IPO: Man sells shares in his own life
🗞️ Playboy: The Publicly Traded Human Goes NSFW
🗞️ The Hustle: The Man Who Sold Shares of Himself
🗞️ WIRED: IPO Man
🗞️ Atlantic Monthly: How One Man Turned Himself Into a Publicly Owned Company
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