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Mike Merrill, combed, straightened, and directed by many hands at once
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A name on the public ledgerShareholder #1,225 — permanent, public, yours.
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A vote on real decisionsWhere Mike lives, works, invests — live, right now.
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On-Camera Training with AC Dickson
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On-Camera Performance Training

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Dispatch

My Dumb Idea

Jun 02, 2026
The numbers

May Numbers: The Cleaner Read Arrives

May 29, 2026
Shareholder vote

What Do We Do With The Money?

May 21, 2026
The numbers

April Numbers: A Record, a Rebound, and One Flat Line

May 14, 2026
Since 2008
The market that never closed.

In 2008, Mike Merrill sold himself — 100,000 shares of one human being, offered to the public. The first person owned by his shareholders.

Eighteen years later the market's still open and the votes still bind. Shareholders have decided where he lives, what he wears, who he dates. Some calls were fun. Some were not. All of them were real.

A share isn't a bet on a number going up. It's a key to the room where the decisions get made.

The tape
A real market, in a real person.
$4.75
Share price
1,225
Shareholders
24,808
Shares in float
183
Votes decided