A review by pmhandley
Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing by Robert L. Fitzpatrick

3.0

This was an excellent history of MLM and really emphasizes how inherently insidious it is. I did not know the history of the first MLM-disguised-pyramid-schemes or how deeply ingrained resistance to cracking down on it is in our political system. What I disliked about this book was it was poorly organized. It talked in circles and rambled a lot. The whole beginning of Nutrilite and eventual emergence of Amway is never fully explained. We get a lot of history of Rehnborg and a repeated statement that Nutrilite sales recruiters eventually spun off the concept to Amway but the actual history of how that happened is never provided. Overall Ponzinomics is super informative but probably could have benefited from a few more rounds of editing.