A man decides to divide himself into 100,000 shares and sell himself on the open market, allowing investors to decide what he should do with his life:
“Then, on August 10, 2008, Merrill asked the shareholders to decide whether he should get a vasectomy. He didn’t tell McCormick that he was going to bring them in on it. As the CEO of himself, he simply wrote a note to his shareholders explaining his position on the subject. ‘Children are a financial drain,’ Merrill wrote. ‘The time investment of raising a child is immense. The responsibility is epic. The impact on future projects would be drastic. In light of these factors, it makes sense to reduce the chances to nearly zero and have a vasectomy performed.’”
“McCormick was furious and embarrassed. ‘He made our personal life public without consulting me,’ she says. It got worse when the ballots came in. Schroeder voted yes. Josh Berezin, a grade-school friend and political consultant, voted yes. To McCormick, it wasn’t just a referendum on the vasectomy. It was also a referendum on whether Merrill’s friends thought he should have kids with her. It was, she says, ‘a judgment on me.’”
