KmikeyM Wiki
Welcome to the encyclopedia of KmikeyM — the world’s first publicly traded person.
Since 2008, Mike Merrill has sold shares of himself to the public, giving shareholders voting rights over his life decisions. This wiki documents the people, projects, events, and ideas that make up the KmikeyM universe.
Browse
- KmikeyM — How the platform works
- Mike Merrill — The person behind it
- Press and Media Coverage — Press, podcasts, and academic citations since 2005
Getting Started
- How to Buy a Share — Your first purchase, what it costs, and why the first share is different
- How the Market Works — Bids, asks, the spread, fractional shares, and how money gets out
- Daily Agenda — Mike’s public day sheet: what he is working on today, rolling seven days
Shares & Governance
- Shareholder Registry — Who owns shares, and how ownership works
- Share Price History — How the price is set and what moves it
- Governance and Legal Structure — Why it’s legal, who decides what, and the continuity plan
- Votes — How decisions actually get made, the two kinds of vote, and where the system has jammed
- List of Votes — The complete public record of binding votes, 2008 to 2026
- Misuse of Executive Power — 2015: the shareholders censured Merrill, in a resolution he wrote himself
- Project Bankruptcy — 2018: he asked to be released from every stalled project, and was refused
- Shareholder Control of Romantic Relationships — Five years of shareholder authority over his personal life
- VTAC — Trust as a tattoo, and the mutual bond that replaced it
- Lending the Decision Engine — 2014: the shareholders governed someone who was not Mike
- KmikeyM Economics — Where the money is, and why the project persists
- The MIKE Economy — The six published indicators, current readings, and how Mike is actually doing
- Memberships — Owning shares is free; trading them is a membership
- Charlie — The investor-relations bot on the shareholder Discord: what he answers, and what he will not do
Events
- The KmikeyM Launch — January 2008: 100,000 shares at a dollar each, the founding event
- The Vasectomy Vote — The shareholder decision heard around the world
- The New Opportunity Vote — The blind vote that launched Chroma
- The Privacy and Governance Vote — The 2025 framework for handling confidential projects
- Politics — A decade of votes: Democrat to Republican to the DSA
Community
- Shareholder Summit — The annual shareholder meeting, in person with a free livestream, since 2016
- Build Week — The annual platform sprint: a few days of shipping the year’s feature requests
- Shareholder Poker — Monthly Hold’em for shareholders and friends, second Tuesday, running over five years
Projects
- Blippo+ — Live-action TV simulator game on Playdate, Steam, and Switch
- Panic — The Portland software company that published Blippo+, and why it shipped on a Playdate
- Chroma — Shareholder-launched startup that became the first blockchain-registered security
- Change Wizard — 2015 iOS game, made via Mike’s “Money Jam” format
- Urban Honking — Honk if you love honking
- PMUGYG — The Portland Mercury Users Group Yahoo! Group
- Portland Sportsman — Independent sports blog (2009-2014)
- 3 Minute Review — The daily micro-podcast, 1,211 episodes across six years
- Snacker.News — Filings from the snack economy, a KmikeyM property since 2016
People
- Joshua Davis — The WIRED writer whose 2013 feature made KmikeyM known beyond Portland
Places & Stories
Ideas
- The Publicly Traded Person — What it means to hold an identity in common
- Community Through Capitalism — The slogan, and what it actually claims
This wiki is a living document. New articles are added as the KmikeyM story continues.