Blippo+
š® We made a game, we're having a party, and a new vote.
Hello Shareholders,
Weāre coming up on the last week of the inaugural run of Blippo+ on the Playdate and weāre having a party! If youāre in Los Angeles please come celebrate the end of the first run and the upcoming color version!
Thursday, August 7th at 7pm
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles, CA
I wrote some initial thoughts about my role as the Executive Producer of this absolutely epic project. Since then Iāve been thinking about how to square the required secrecy of being part of this team while being a publicly traded person.
Over the years Iāve internalized a sense of what the shareholders would want me to do. Like Iām Demi Moore and the shareholders are Patrick Swayze and weāre making pottery togetherā¦
But with Blippo+ I spent three years āthrowing potsā in private before I was able to share it. I hinted it at it a few times but there was never an opportunity for a shareholder vote or even any kind of shareholder disclosure.
I appreciate that I am part of a community that I inherently supports work like this (and there is a special thanks in the credits to the KmikeyM Shareholders), but part of creating the board of directors was to help solve the disclosure / privacy issue. And I think we could formalize that processā¦
š Privacy and Governance
This is a proposal for how confidential projects should be handled. Historically Iāve said that anything I would ask a friend about at a bar is a shareholder question. This has meant that questions, big or small, are issues Iām actually struggling with. But this also means that so many choices are made with no shareholder input, and in the cases of confidential matters, no announcement until after the fact.
The purpose of this vote is to enact a policy for when disclosure is made, who it is disclosed to, and when those disclosures might trigger a shareholder vote.
This includes projects like Blippo+, where:
Participation required strict privacy from collaborators
The work consumed significant time and creative energy
The outcome meaningfully impacts my professional and creative reputation
Read more about the proposed framework and then vote:
And Iāll have more details (and likely another vote) soon but I am starting a new full time job on Monday. Iām incredibly excited as it reunites me with a number of people who have been involved with KmikeyM from the very beginning and is a role that is uniquely suited to my talents!
Profitably Yours,
-K. Mike Merrill