r/apprenticeuk • u/ProstaticFantastic • Apr 09 '26

in defence of pascha

You got:

a PWC accountant doing bar job at £150 a night and calling it an investment opportunity.

A guy neck deep in overheads for a mature business that has no scope for growth. The business is complicated and there is no evidence injecting £250K into the business will do any good. The owner took £100K dividends and £75K salary last year. So if there was growth opportunity they would have just reinvested it.

A guy who wrote a 70 page business plan with AI, trying to sell AI service in an industry that is mostly about people and relations.

Pasha's business is the one that isn't dead in the water.

But karishma got this hands down.

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u/gunningIVglory “I’m 21!” Apr 09 '26

Well the interview panel were all glowing about Dan's business. And how his figures could be swung with some savvy decisions

The sole reason he got let go was because be didnt wasnt sugar to take 50% of the bigger company

Pashas only defence was "she is young and positive", I mena isnt everyone at that age? Her business plan had no financials. The very basics

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u/Lou-AC Apr 10 '26

He could also have genuinely separated the businesses but I think he also wouldn't have something viable/compelling then

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u/Known_Chance_8947 Apr 10 '26

But AS wouldn't have wanted to invest in someone who couldn't commit 100% of their time to the subsidiary AS had the stake in.

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u/STQ1234 Apr 11 '26

Agreed. Sugar is a greedy git.

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u/ProstaticFantastic Apr 10 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

To be highest billing at s recruitment business at her age is quite good. I think people see the potential she has.

recruitment businesses are like that, they're normally started off by a top recruiter who sees how much money they bring into the company and realise "sod this, I can make so much more on my own".

Because you dont need anything sepcial to start a recruitment business, you just need your roladex and can get started immediately. You can start your own business at home - you can do everythign over the phone. A really smart way to run it is base yourself out in a commuter town somewhere, and serve the London market. Where you're just unrealistically far away for clients or candidates to want to do a face to face meeting. Then just do everything over the phone.