Tag: community

  • Zoom Checkin

    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) https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7297517576Meeting ID: 729 751 7576 Previous Meetings Apr 2, 2020 01:00 PMMarch 25th at 5:00pm

  • Future Congress Keynote

    Future Congress Keynote

    The Future Congress Keynote I did in Wolfsburg Germany.

  • K5M Dialup Clips

    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 Kevin MacLeod No Good Layabout by Kevin MacLeod

  • Teaser of Dialup Call

    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 expectations I had and it was the highlight of my week. I highly recommend you connect with…

  • Kriss Knapp: An Artistic Analysis

    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 Instagram. And to learn more about Kriss go to krissknapp.com.

  • Meet The Man Selling Influence Over His Personal Life Decisions

    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 idea to its logical extreme. In 2008, Merrill launched KmikeyM, a corporate-alter-ego-slash-trading-platform, where investors can purchase stock that gives them voting power over…

  • The World’s First Publicly Traded Human Goes NSFW

    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 really knew Mike Merrill, you would know that it is very un–Mike Merrill–like to lie bare-chested on the floor with his best…

  • A Collective Review of The University

    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…

  • Meet the Man Who Sold His Fate to Investors at $1 a Share

    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 of $1 a share. Each share would earn a potential return on profits he made outside of his day job as a customer…

  • Guerrilla Happy Hour

    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 large populations to determine how to encourage prosocial behaviors, but how do you apply incentives to your personal life? Guerrilla Happy Hour has been an…