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💀 How It Ends
One of the big differences in being a publicly traded person vs. a publicly traded company is that while a company can live forever I will die. My younger brother, and shareholder, is the beneficiary of any of my assets should I die. His instructions are to work with Aaron (the architect of the site)…
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🗳️What is a “Shareholder Vote”
There are two ways that shareholders control me. First is by my stock price. Every morning when I wake up I say, ‘Alexa, play my flash briefing’ which includes the HBS Management tip of the day, the weather forecast for Los Angeles, and my stock price. When the stock is up I feel great, and…
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📉 How to Sell Shares
Selling shares is easy, but withdrawing funds is a manual process. Sell shares on the market Request funds (send email to ir@kmikeym.com) Funds will be sent via Venmo, Square Cash, or whatever solution works best
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📈 How To Buy Shares
Buying shares is easy, but it takes a number of small steps. You have to have an account, then deposit funds into your account, and then purchase from the market. Create an account Deposit funds Buy a share Creating an Account Select “Open New Account” from the top navbar Choose a username, enter your email,…
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🎮 How To Play
Itching to have some shares and start voting? There’s no better way to learn than to simply buy some shares and get started! And if you still have unanswered questions this section will help you catch up on anything you’ve missed. Overview Most of what you need to know about KmikeyM can be gleaned with…
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📜 A Brief History Of Mike
Alaska Born Kenneth Michael Merrill in Fairbanks, Alaska on May 17th, 1977 Raised in Coldfoot, AK, population 10 Started public school: 5th grade in Soldotna, AK Graduated High School in Sitka, AK The Army Joined the Army at 17 Military Police Stationed in Alabama Stationed in Germany Portland, Oregon Moved to Portland (done with snow)…
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Those Kind of Assets
In Dan Hon’s 186th issue of his newsletter, Things That Have Caught My Attention, he finds himself sitting in a suburban Starbucks thinking about the shipping container Starbucks near the Portland airport and writing about video game tourism: “Sure, the idea of videogames-as-tourism, or escapism, isn’t necessarily a new one. My anecdata points to a…
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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 book up into parts and gave them to KmikeyM shareholders in order to generate this collective opinion. Pages 13…
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Notes On Camping
“The object of your mission is to explore communication with the water of the Pacific,” Thomas Jefferson’s instructions to Meriwether Lewis This was a paid assignment written by Gregory Campanile. Part 1: I Do Not Like Camping Ever since I moved to Portland, I have experienced a near constant barrage of outdoorsy types trying to convince…
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Re-Thinking the Game of Monopoly
It would be hard to simplify capitalism further than Monopoly. The game attempts to express the ruthlessness of raw capitalism by declaring that whoever has the most money at the “end” is the winner. While it’s true our culture proclaims the rich as our greatest heroes, the method of financial gain in Monopoly is not…
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Publicly Traded Person: The Man Who Sold Shares Of Himself
Mike Merrill is a the world’s first publicly traded person; he’s sold shares of himself and makes decisions based on the votes of his shareholders. Produced by Kristofor Lawson.
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The Critical FAQ
If you’ve ever received media attention you know how the internet will enable you to receive unsolicited critiques from strangers. While many people advise ignoring the comment section I like to embrace it. For example, after Rick Pace of Pace Photography wrote me some mean-spirited emails I asked if I could share our exchange and he agreed,…