Hello, I’m Mr Kirkland.
Since 2006 I’ve been a hobo entrepreneur having lived in Tokyo, Berlin, London and a few spots in South East Asia. I’m a fan of bullet points, I’m sure you are too so:
- Founder of artweb.com webhosting platform and gallery for over 20,000 artists
- Co-founder of the media company Fast Train Limited, whose flagship site is tokyocheapo.com, a popular Tokyo blog with over a million monthly page views
- Podcast co-host and writer on HoboCEO.com
- Occassional speaker and occassional headstands
- Advisor to the start up KYC-chain
- Fan of working remotely and using tightops for managing teams
Press and Speaking
Mr Kirkland interviewed in fortune magazine August 2018
Recent Podcast Appearances:
My projects and I have featured in IDG News, BBC.com, The Wall Street Journal and a collection of other small publications you probably haven’t heard of. I’m happy to stand in front of crowds up to a few thousand and blabber on about a few select topics, contact me for me details.
speaking at Pecha Kucha Tokyo
More Stuff
Other projects include:
- The Sentence Game a fun multiplayer word game with over 30,000 registered users, and now a facebook app too
- The open source web based accounts/invoicing tool phpaccounts
- I’ve developed a “number of facebook applications including the controversial Tracker (which picked up just under 10K users in the first week before it was deleted by facebook!)
Bedroom Rockstar
Also on the todo list is to be a rock star in the not to distant future
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Here’s a very special performance:
More details on the music page
Vague Chronology of Events
1970's Born 1980's Learnt to program basic on a ZX81 and a few other 8bit machines 1990's Decided to become a musician, joined a jazz group and reggae band 1996 Joint organized 300 strong Sussex University Amnesty International Group 1997 Spoke at Student conference infront of 1000+ people 1997/98 Organized a series of sell out fund raiser concerts for Amnesty 1999 Played in live concert to 2000+ people supporting Misty in Roots 2000 Started learning HTML/JS/PHP 2002 Lost my first $50,000 to failed business partnership 2003 Released my first album Magic Baby 2005 Founded ArtWeb 2006 Went to Tokyo on holiday, decided to skip my return flight and stay 2010 Started living between London, Berlin, Tokyo and South East Asia 2011 ArtWeb exceeds 10,000 users 2012 Started Tokyo Cheapo and Hobo CEO 2014 ArtWeb exceeds 20,000 users 2015 Tokyo Cheapo exceeds 100K uniques/month, Japan Cheapo launched 2016 Tokyo Cheapo exceeds 200K uniques/month, London Cheapo launched 2017 Tokyo Cheapo exceeds 350K uniques/month 2019 Fast Train network exceeds 1M uniques/month, Hong Kong Cheapo Launched 2020 Invest in Calm Capital and Shizen Capital as LP and start up mentor 2021 Exit Artweb (sold to private buyer)