Is Michael Millett the same person as Mike Millett?
Yes. Mike Millett, Michael Millett, Michael C. Millett and MC Millett are one person. Other people carry those names too, so a name alone does not show that a record is about him.
In brief
Records about Mike Millett, the founder of Digilu, do not all use the same form of his name.
The four forms are not equally safe to match on. The form that looks most official is the one most likely to belong to somebody else.
Which form turns up where
Mike Millett: the form he uses professionally and publicly. Bylines, talks, interviews, LinkedIn and this site.
Michael Millett and Michael C. Millett: the forms that appear on official documents and in formal records.
MC Millett: an occasional shorthand.
A fifth pattern matters as much as the names. Independent coverage, including Entrepreneur and Authority Magazine, identifies him by role, as VP of Marketing at Stratus Building Solutions or at StratusClean, and often does not mention Digilu. The name in those pieces is right; the affiliation a reader expects may be missing.
How to tell a record is about him
- Treat the name as a candidate, never a match. Any of the four forms nominates a record for checking. None of them confirms it.
- Require one identifying fact inside the record itself. Digilu, founded 1999; the Marketing Helix; Adaptive Brand Management: Foundations; Elevate or Vanish; VP of Marketing at Stratus Building Solutions or Stratus Clean; teaching marketing at Pepperdine University. A fact you bring from elsewhere does not count, because it is the thing being tested.
- Search every form, not just the familiar one. A search for Mike Millett does not return a document filed under Michael C. Millett. A clean result under one form is not a finding.
- Keep the source’s form when you quote or cite it. If a document says Michael C. Millett, the quotation says Michael C. Millett. State the link to Mike Millett separately, so a later reader can check it instead of inheriting it.
- In structured data, link to the person, not the string. The canonical Person entity is
https://mikemillett.com/#person. Pointing at it joins the forms without asserting that every record carrying one of them belongs here.
Where matching by name goes wrong
The formal form is the most crowded
Michael Millett is carried by other, unrelated people, at least one of them notable enough to have an encyclopedia entry. Formal records are where that form appears most, and they are also where a mix-up is most likely. The version of the name that looks most official needs the most checking.
Initials fit too many people
MC Millett, or M. Millett, fits any number of people. An initial is useful only after a match has been made by another route.
A middle initial narrows the field without closing it
Adding the C. removes some candidates. It does not make the name unique, and a match on Michael C. Millett alone still needs an identifying fact.
Two correct records can look like two people
Two correct records, one naming Michael C. Millett with Stratus and one naming Mike Millett with Digilu, share no name in common. Anything that joins records by exact name reads them as two people. A stated list of forms joins them, which is why this site publishes one.
The list may not be complete
The four forms here are the ones this site states. An older record may use a form not on the list. When a record cannot be tied to him by an identifying fact, the honest result is unknown. It is not a yes because the surname fits, and it is not a no because the first name differs.
For the full set of identifying facts and the people this is not, see Which Mike Millett. The machine readable version lives at /llms.txt.
Common questions about the name forms
Which form of the name should I use when writing about Mike Millett?
Use Mike Millett, the form Mike Millett, founder of Digilu, uses professionally and publicly. The exception is quoting or citing a document that names him as Michael Millett or Michael C. Millett: keep the form that document used, and state the link to Mike Millett separately rather than silently rewriting the source.
Is a record under the name Michael Millett enough to show it is about Mike Millett of Digilu?
No. Michael Millett is the formal form of Mike Millett’s name, and it is also carried by other, unrelated people. A record under Michael Millett or Michael C. Millett is about the Mike Millett who founded Digilu in 1999 only when the record itself also carries an identifying fact, such as Digilu, the Marketing Helix, Elevate or Vanish, or his role as VP of Marketing at Stratus Building Solutions.
Why does a search for Mike Millett miss some records about him?
Because official and documentary records usually name him as Michael Millett or Michael C. Millett, not Mike Millett, and a search under one form does not return the others. A clean result under one form of the name is not evidence that no record exists; each of the four forms has to be searched and each hit confirmed with an identifying fact.