Tag: publicly traded person
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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…
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My Attempted Ether Binge
“There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.” Hunter S. Thompson In 2015 I was excited about crypto and I wanted some ether, the digital currency that powers Ethereum. We live in a consumer society, I thought, how hard can it…
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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 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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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,…
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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…
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MKRM
October 12th, 2011 MKRM will be celebrating their next major transition this Friday (October 14th) at 7:30 as we clean out the infamous “Whiskey Shelf” in order to vacate the Brass Works Building. All former interns, employees, delivery persons, clients, and partners are invited to join us. August 8th, 2011 Man about town Jared White…