Ambit: Making clean energy dirty again | Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Go to http://hellofresh.com/mlm21 and use code mlm21 for 21 free meals plus free shipping! Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/mlm. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. Ambit Energy and Steam Energy are two MLMs that are taking advantage of the desire for alternative energy and sustainability. Are their help and environmental aid worth the negative consequences of their direct-selling business model? Are they actually helping anyone at all, or just using sustainability as a new way to target direct sellers? Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://pastebin.com/Xr1DJWSf Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for making Ambit Energy the finest
0:01.9	most respected retail.
0:03.9	You guys are amazing.
0:08.0	Thank you for making Ambit Energy the finest most respected retail energy company in America.
0:15.0	Your commitment to Ambit's success and to your own
0:23.5	co-founder of Ambit Energy, Chris Chambliss, opened the 2011
0:27.5	MLM Ambit Ambition Conference by trying to make his company
0:31.0	appear thoughtful and caring.
0:34.0	And I know the clever word play of ambit and ambition, just so spicy.
0:38.6	However, the reason I say he tried to make them sound thoughtful is because in my opinion, Chris failed so miserably at doing
0:44.7	this that the end result is a cringe-worthy, laughable cookie cutter presentation.
0:50.1	Let's start with the black and white footage of an empty warehouse.
0:53.0	Chris is walking around it pacing while so many different shots of the same room fill up
0:57.2	the presentation screen.
0:58.8	While Chris stares into space, that sweet royalty-free basic guitar music starts to play.
1:05.0	Do they have the right tools?
1:08.0	Do they have the right training?
1:11.0	Are you getting the right tools you need to succeed? I have the greatest job. I'm proud of the foundation we've made.
1:19.0	Chris's opening looks like he's about to start listing side effects of a medication if I'm going to be honest here.
1:24.1	I'm half expecting him to tell the crowd that ambit energy may cause heart palpitations and
1:28.0	headaches or something. So on the surface, yeah, this is what ambit Energy looks like, just another laughable
1:33.2	melm. And like any other pyramid-shaped company we've seen, Chris talks about the
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