Welcome to the corporate gossip podcast. It's the business podcast for gossip lovers. We explore the most absurd corporate scandals, the juiciest Wall Street tea, and the not-so hidden secrets of famous business people. You don't need to know anything about business to enjoy the corporate gossip podcast, but you might learn something along the way. Today's episode, Amway and the DeVos family,

working overtime at the Stupid Factory.

Welcome back to the corporate gossip podcast.

I'm your host, CBA Scorn, Becca Platsky.

I'm here with my brother, my co-host.

Data Analytics Playboy Adam Platsky.

And finally, an episode about pyramid schemes.

This was an episode inspired by everybody over on Patreon. For this episode,

we read Little Bosses Everywhere by Bridget Reed, which is our Q1 book club selection. I loved this book. Did you like it? Oh, such a fun read. Very quick. Really, really quick read.

The book touches on Herbalife, Mary Kay, Primeraica, Tupperware, Cutco, and Amway.

That's the one we're going to focus on for this episode.

It's probably the most famous MLM.

It's the subject of thousands of pages of lawsuits and investigations.

They allegedly sell $7 billion of products last year, but I've never seen an Amway product ever in my life.

Could have fooled me. Have you ever seen one? I've never seen one, not in the flesh. Right.

And just to put it in reference, Gillette also sells $7 billion worth of products worldwide. When's the last time you saw a

Gillette product? Just this morning. I went shopping for some toilet paper and I saw all the Gillettes.

Right.

So that's like kind of a tip.

Yeah.

Interestingly, Amway doesn't track how much product is sold to the end customer like other

companies do.

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