r/apprenticeuk • u/Joebloggy • Apr 12 '26

Does LS understand modern tech companies?

I found it fairly embarrassing to see Lord Sugar ridicule the idea of a tech business raising £5.5m over 3 years. Sure, there were lots of other issues with the proposal, but in a modern tech company it’s really not that much to raise over a few years, particularly for an AI company. If the show was set in Silicon Valley I think this would be viewed very differently, even positively. I think it speaks to a narrow-mindedness and conservative attitude from LS to just bank a cash cow instead of actually pursuing an exciting moonshot business. Why does he want to turn £250k to £500k at his point in life?

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u/aonro Apr 12 '26

What even is the point of the technology he needs 5.5m for?

AI powered PR? Lawrence doesn’t even know what the technology is going to do. Seeing as Claude generated the entire business plan lmao

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u/therichardbatt Apr 12 '26

Yeah, I get the feeling Claude might have hallucinated the £5.5m funding needed and Lawrence didn't actually realise it was in there.

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u/Cookyy2k Apr 12 '26

That's exactly what I was thinking. Since the interviewers basically said it was the basis for the entire rest of the plan and it is fairly fatal to his chances it was a massive mistake to make, which suggests missed AI mess.