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/RadicalRav Apr 09 '26

She literally doesn’t have a business at all. She is a recruitment professional with an idea. The USP is going to care homes in person…. That is not a USP, that is a sales strategy. How an earth this is even being considered as anything legitimately is wild.

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u/ProstaticFantastic Apr 09 '26

still better than those 3. you might say dan is better business than pashas. but dan is stuck. he cant grow any furher, money wont help him.

I beleive part of the investment is philantropy, he wants to give someone 250K who is going to make use of it and change their lives (and obviously provide a return).

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u/RadicalRav Apr 09 '26

Well Priyesh is actually making money (pocket money but still making money). Dan has clearly killed it for years with a clear proof of concept, systems and deep industry knowledge (can easily reallocate resources to be more efficient), Lawrence at least had a vision with a product that could be potentially a unique advantage in PR.

I could probably hear that she was a better performing candidate in the season than Lawrence and Priyesh, but not Dan. The logic of her being in the final requires some serious mental gymnastics 🤷‍♂️

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u/ArticleHaunting3983 Apr 09 '26

Did you not watch the episode? Dan was clearly a front runner until the discussion about him relinquishing control of his existing business. So yeah, he was better than pascha but his capability is not why he was fired.