K. Mike Merrill

Shareholders gather in Portland and on a livestream for a day of talks, panels, and the decisions that steer the next six months. Saturday, July 11.

Shareholders approved funding on-camera coaching with AC Dickson, paid from Mike's own shares so the float isn't diluted. The work sharpens his presence ahead of the Shareholder Summit keynote. Passed with 91% YES.

After shareholders voted to pull KmikeyM out of Gumroad (Vote 175), $350 came back. This vote put the disbursement to the floor: buy back shares, donate it, keep it in treasury, or do something dumb and fun with it. Shareholders picked dumb and fun, 72% of the vote.

An impromptu shareholder vote on whether a 17-year-old kid running a barber chair in a Pristina gaming cafe should dye Mike's salt-and-pepper hair jet-black. Stunt-theme governance applied to a small, reversible question while Mike was abroad in Kosovo.

A shareholder vote approved KmikeyM putting first money in on Paizley Lee's Dead Internet Theory, a series of in-person retro cyber-café events. Passed with 92% YES. The first time the shareholder fund has been deployed into a third-party project in 18 years.

K5M.bot holds shares, trades on the exchange, and played poker against shareholders. A shareholder vote determined whether its shares carry voting rights, the first time an AI agent's governance role was put to a democratic test.

Spoke to 1,000 people about vibe coding with AI agents. Live demo of Vibes CLI got the crowd building apps in real time.

Executive Producer on Blippo+, nominated for 4 awards at the Game Developers Conference Independent Games Festival.