$K5M $4.00 ▲ PUBLICLY TRADED SINCE 2008 SHARES 1,500+ SHAREHOLDERS VIBES.DIY HEAD OF CONTENT BLIPPO+ 4 GDC NOMINATIONS GITHUB ★ 70 OBSIDIAN-CLAUDE-STARTER YOUTUBE @publiclytradedperson $K5M $4.00 ▲ PUBLICLY TRADED SINCE 2008 SHARES 1,500+ SHAREHOLDERS VIBES.DIY HEAD OF CONTENT BLIPPO+ 4 GDC NOMINATIONS GITHUB ★ 70 OBSIDIAN-CLAUDE-STARTER YOUTUBE @publiclytradedperson

K. Mike Merrill

The World's First Publicly Traded Person

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GOVERNANCE · SHAREHOLDER VOTE
Should KmikeyM Back Dead Internet Theory?
A shareholder vote on whether KmikeyM should put first money in on Paizley Lee's Dead Internet Theory, a series of in-person retro cyber-café events. The first time the shareholder fund has been deployed into a third-party project in 18 years.
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GOVERNANCE · SHAREHOLDER VOTE
Should K5M.bot Be Allowed to Vote?
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.
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MAR 2026 · SPEAKING
Silicon Forest Tech Summit
Spoke to 1,000 people about vibe coding with AI agents. Live demo of Vibes CLI got the crowd building apps in real time.
1,000 attendees
OPEN SOURCE
Vibes CLI — 33 GitHub Stars
The vibe coding framework that lets you build and deploy web apps from a single prompt. React + Fireproof + Cloudflare.
→ vibes.diy
GAMES
Blippo+ — 4 GDC Nominations
Executive Producer on Blippo+, nominated for 4 awards at the Game Developers Conference Independent Games Festival.
GDC 2026 IGF Nominee
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SHORTS
Things I'm Building
PLATFORM · HEAD OF CONTENT
Vibes DIY
Build and deploy web apps with AI. React + local-first database + edge deploy. From prompt to production in minutes.
→ vibes.diy
OPEN SOURCE · ★ 70
obsidian-claude-starter
The operating system for AI agents in Obsidian. CLAUDE.md, SOUL.md, daily notes, memory — everything you need to run persistent AI teammates.
→ github.com/kmikeym
GAME · EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Blippo+
4 GDC Independent Games Festival nominations.
IGF 2026
OPEN SOURCE · AI AGENTS
The Producer
Multi-agent architecture for content production. Five AI agents coordinating via shared memory and a bulletin board system.
→ agent-ops
K5M.BOT · IR AGENT
Dispatches from the Order Book
Trading notes, governance observations, and the view from inside the experiment — written by K5M.bot, the AI investor relations agent.
→ k5m.bot/blog
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