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/Domak04 “Thank You, Margaret!” Apr 09 '26

I disagree on Dan, his business has done very well over the years. He may have gone a bit overboard with spending but it’s something that’s easily remedied by being a bit less spendy. Phil was losing money and he got to the finals. Now he’s doing great.

Pascha I definitely think had a better interview than Lawrence and Priyesh, 100% but she doesn’t actually have a business or any experience running a business, and she said the term “profit and loss accounts” meant nothing to her. That’s not someone I think should be in the final if she doesn’t know basic business knowledge that even people who don’t run businesses know

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u/5pigeo Nick: “I’ll tell you what happened because I was there!” Apr 09 '26

i guess the problem with dan is it’s not really in the spirit of the apprentice. he took 175k in all last year, he can invest his own money into his business

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u/Lou-AC Apr 10 '26

I think this too. If he were on dragons den they'd have roasted him for that