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...Twitter relies on advertising for much of its revenue, in contrast to many enterprise software companies that have steady, stickier revenues from corporate clients paying to use their products....
...“People try the product and have an experience that brings it to life,” he says. This leads to higher sales....
...The legal test for a pyramid scheme is that distributors are rewarded for recruitment rather than selling product, and that most of them lose money....
...He said he disagreed with Mr Ackman’s thesis, and that Herbalife’s business model is “a great way to retail products”....
...scheme – rather than selling products to consumers....
...Mr Ackman’s central charge is that Herbalife operates with the primary aim of recruiting distributors into its network – the chief characteristic of a pyramid scheme – rather than selling products to consumers...
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