For anyone else thinking "wasn't that surname in the news a while back?", you're probably remembering Betsy DeVos, who was narrowly appointed as US Secretary of Education from 2017-2021, and yes, it's the same family.
> DeVos is married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Her brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA. Their father is billionaire industrialist Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation.
> DeVos
For anyone else thinking "wasn't that surname in the news a while back?", you're probably remembering Betsy DeVos, who was narrowly appointed as US Secretary of Education from 2017-2021, and yes, it's the same family.
> DeVos is married to former Amway CEO Dick DeVos. Her brother, Erik Prince, a former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, is the founder of Blackwater USA. Their father is billionaire industrialist Edgar Prince, founder of the Prince Corporation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos
https://archive.ph/KCOrE
Aren't the Amway salespeople what we would now call "influencers"?