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00:00You're fired. You're fired. You've completely messed it up. You're fired.
00:12Previously on The Apprentice, it was dogs...
00:16Imagine if you had the power to leave your dog voice notes.
00:18Do you like the idea of the audio function? Is it something you would use?
00:22None. None of you.
00:23Versus cats.
00:25I'll be leading this one for you guys. It's win or walk.
00:29Wow.
00:30We love the concept, but the product's not there yet.
00:34Karishma's team took the lead.
00:36They made it to secure 2,600 orders.
00:39What?
00:40And on the losing team...
00:42You didn't try hard enough. You didn't push them enough.
00:45Rosner...
00:46You're fired.
00:46And Kieran...
00:48We had a deal. All the best, guys.
00:49Bowed out.
00:50It's now from 20 of us to the final five.
00:54Yeah.
00:54That's wild.
01:04One week to go till the final showdown.
01:07Hello.
01:08Good morning.
01:09Lord Sugar would like to meet you for the interviews at Hilo East London.
01:12Please bring your business plans.
01:14Okay. Sure.
01:15Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye.
01:19For the remaining candidates, last chance to polish up on their proposals.
01:25To reinvent public relations for the modern era.
01:27This isn't just a business idea. It's a movement.
01:31Student recruitment boss, Dan Miller...
01:34Hi, Frey.
01:35Hi, Dan. How are you doing?
01:37...is hoping his proven track record will take him all the way.
01:41How's business going?
01:42All good. We're all holding down the port here whilst you're gone.
01:46I think the thing that sets me apart from a lot of other candidates in this process,
01:49it's the experience I've had.
01:51I've grown the business since I was 17.
01:53I've done it on my own.
01:54I made my first million by 25 and I want to make a lot more millions in the future.
01:59YP graduates, taking the Young Professionals brand and this new business to the next level
02:03with Lord Sugar.
02:04I think the rest of the candidates in the process should be worried about going up against me.
02:07The reality is that I'm the only one here with a business plan that's guaranteed for success.
02:12By having Lord Sugar as a business partner, as a mentor, would really be life-changing.
02:18Hoping for a smooth pitch, 28-year-old PR man, Lawrence Rosenberg.
02:24I've always enjoyed job interviews, weirdly.
02:27You know, it's going to be tough, I know that.
02:28It's going to be a grilling.
02:29Now it's the opportunity to let my business do the talking
02:32and hopefully I can make the right first impression.
02:35Delivering smarter, faster and more transparent PR through intelligent automation.
02:40The opportunity that I want to put forward is something that isn't something that's going to make
02:44five or ten million.
02:45This is something that will change how PR is done for good.
02:49Total five-year revenue projection, 18 million pounds.
02:52I'm really doing this for my wife, my family.
02:55You know, I want to have that safe, secure family life.
02:59Just best of luck.
03:00Like, you're going to smash it.
03:01I'm so proud of you.
03:03It's been really hard without my wife, to be honest with you.
03:05I love every moment with her and to be away from her for this amount of time has been unbelievably
03:10difficult.
03:10You're doing it for us and we've got future family.
03:13I couldn't be more proud of you.
03:15You're going to make me cry.
03:16It just means everything now, you know, that opportunity to get to the final and potentially win.
03:22I just hope it goes how I think it's going to go.
03:27Despite being the youngest candidate, 21-year-old Pasha Myhill has taken the process in her stride.
03:34Words can't really describe the feeling of getting to the final five.
03:37I just knew that if I was myself, the confident, bubbly Pasha, I had a genuine feeling that, yeah, I
03:44would make it to the end.
03:45She's hoping to recruit Lord Sugar to her healthcare-focused firm.
03:50To me, my business plan is good.
03:51The potential and the growth margin, it's unstoppable.
03:56I want to build a reputable recruitment company that changes perceptions.
04:00Getting the investment from Lord Sugar would be life-changing.
04:03It would just be amazing to take that step at 21, doing something that I absolutely love.
04:09Gross profit year two, £804,000.
04:13I'm here to get to the end and ultimately be Lord Sugar's next business partner.
04:21With the most wins under his belt,
04:24Priyash Bathia is hoping his bar business side hustle has the recipe for success.
04:31My passion is obviously making people smile.
04:34I'm a smiley person.
04:35I had that energy when people are happy, I feel happy as well.
04:38Priyash Bathia is currently operating as a small mobile cocktail bar business.
04:42Going to these interviews, I think I'm going to be very nervous and anxious.
04:45I think I'm just going to be myself.
04:46I bring a lot of positive energy anyway.
04:48I just want to show you the world, my business plan, what I'm capable of.
04:52Year three, my revenue is £1.1 million.
04:56I've turned something that is my hobby, my passion, into a business idea,
05:00which is what life should be all about.
05:02It's creating something you like and making money out of it.
05:0828-year-old Karishma Vijay is chasing more than just a healthy glow with her beauty business.
05:18When I was 18, I was diagnosed with severe cystic acne.
05:22I genuinely felt so ugly and I let my skin define me.
05:25So I looked around and when I found something that finally worked,
05:29I told myself I'm going to find the best version of this,
05:33I'm going to put it in a bottle and I'm going to sell it one day.
05:35To become a globally trusted skincare-infused beauty brand,
05:39known for its powerful ingredients, a strong community and a viral digital presence.
05:43My business has been around for five months.
05:47I've turned over 50k.
05:49That's not too bad.
05:50That's not too bad.
05:51Hi, Baba.
05:53Hi, Kishu.
05:53How are you, bitta?
05:54I'm good, babes.
05:55How are you?
05:56The last couple of years have been incredibly straining for my family financially.
06:01We've struggled for such a long time.
06:03We've just been moving home to home.
06:05And that makes this very moment monumental for me.
06:08The most important thing is your confidence is with you.
06:11And your hard work is going to pay.
06:13Just do it.
06:15I'm here now and I'm here to fight.
06:17I'm the most credible business person in this room.
06:20I'm probably the strongest.
06:286am.
06:36This is a huge day.
06:37This could set up my business, my career.
06:40The nerves are, yeah, they're hitting.
06:42I'm just nervous about not knowing what they're going to ask me.
06:46Boys, you know what?
06:47My makeup's not finished.
06:49I forgot my rings.
06:50My lucky rings at home.
06:51I actually don't know what to do with myself.
06:53You reckon we can turn this car around?
06:59Hilo.
07:00A 28-storey skyscraper in the heart of East London.
07:23Good morning.
07:24Good morning, Lord Sugar.
07:26Now, as you know, this is the 20th year of the process.
07:30And to date, I've invested 3.5 million into previous winners.
07:36And one of you will be my next business partner.
07:40Now, here's the thing.
07:41I don't care whether you have an established business or just a seed of an idea,
07:46as long as what you're bringing me has the potential to be big.
07:50So, I've asked some of my trusted advisors to assess both your plans and your personal credentials.
07:58So, please hand your business plans over to Karen and Tim.
08:11So, good luck.
08:13I'll see you in the boardroom tomorrow.
08:15Off you go.
08:17Lying in wait.
08:18Lord Sugar's tough-talking team.
08:21Setting the record straight, publishing pioneer Mike Souter.
08:26Do you want my opinion on Boozy Bar?
08:28Yeah.
08:28I think it's a bit naff.
08:29Yeah.
08:30Boozy Bar sounds like the kind of thing that my mum would get excited about.
08:35Unafraid to dig deep, former boss of a billion-pound media firm, Claudine Collins.
08:41I bought a bottle.
08:43What is this rubbish that comes with it?
08:47It's like for five-year-olds.
08:50Running the numbers, Lord Sugar's long-time friend and associate, Claude Littner.
08:56Hello, Claude.
08:57Hi there.
08:59Shall I take a seat?
09:00You can stand if you want.
09:03Pulling at any loose threads, fashion brand founder, Linda Plant.
09:08I just don't think you're ready for an investment.
09:10I think someone needs to train you first.
09:12I'm well-trained.
09:13I don't doubt you've got skills.
09:15I just think it's all too limited for a £250,000 investment.
09:21Can't believe we're here.
09:22Final five.
09:23I know.
09:24Oh, absolutely nervous right now.
09:26Going to be a long day.
09:27A long day of a good grilling.
09:29You know that feeling in your stomach?
09:32Like a pit.
09:32Yeah, it feels like I'm going to throw up.
09:36Priyash, Linda is ready for you now.
09:38Oh, Claude.
09:40Oh, the good Claude.
09:41Oh, my God, good luck.
09:43See you soon.
09:45That is scary.
09:46Yeah, I think he's going to do well.
09:48I think it's just so hard not to like the guy.
09:51He's always just so smiling.
09:53I mean, let's see if that works with the interviewers.
09:56Hi, Linda.
09:57Hello.
09:58I don't think they're here to look at big smiles, to be honest with you.
10:01So, Priyash, tell me about your business.
10:05Sure.
10:06So, my business plan is to create a personalised mobile bar
10:09as well as a ready-to-drink cocktail and mocktail product line
10:13to make it into a scalable national brand.
10:15So, it's not one business, it's two businesses.
10:19Essentially, yes.
10:20It's like two into one.
10:21You're splitting the focus on two very, very different businesses, right?
10:25How risky does it make your business plan?
10:28Risky, but in life you should take risks.
10:30Yeah, you should take risks, but they need to be calculated.
10:33This ready-to-drink product,
10:35you've allocated £50,000 for launching this drink.
10:38Do you really think you can do that for £50,000?
10:42Looking back on my plan, I think I should...
10:44I know I need to allocate a lot more money.
10:46Well, how much more?
10:47I reckon that's going to cost around £150,000.
10:50So, why did you book £50,000?
10:52Because you've got no idea, really, what you're doing, have you?
10:55Correct.
10:55You're not going to produce a drink for £50,000.
10:59You haven't even got a recipe.
11:00You haven't even got a manufacturer.
11:02Yes, I agree.
11:03Look, you're good at your day job.
11:05Do that.
11:05Try and build the boozy bar up.
11:07Forget the drink.
11:08You're never going to do it.
11:09OK.
11:09OK.
11:13Oh, my God.
11:14Elevator G going down.
11:16That couldn't go any worse.
11:19Oh, here he comes.
11:22Guys, that was actually shambles.
11:24Like, literally.
11:25Oh, my God.
11:26She's the devil.
11:27She actually is.
11:28I just want to go up now.
11:30I just don't like the waiting around.
11:32It just builds up the tension and the nerves.
11:35Oh, I just want to settle.
11:36I just want to, like, do the first one and be settled.
11:39Grishma, you're a bit quiet right now.
11:40What's happened?
11:41I don't know.
11:42You're nervous?
11:43Grishma, head up to Mike.
11:45Good luck, Grishma.
11:47Good luck, Grishma.
11:47Smash it.
11:47You're going to kill it.
11:51She's got it in the bag.
11:52She knows her business inside and out.
11:54I'm sure she'll handle it like a champ.
11:56Yeah, exactly.
11:58Good morning, Mike.
12:00Take a seat, please.
12:01Thank you, sir.
12:04Grishma, please describe the business that you would like Lord Sugar to invest £250,000 in.
12:11So, my business is a skincare-infused beauty brand.
12:14And you've got a degree in biomedical science, right?
12:17So, you know a lot about this sector.
12:20Yeah.
12:20And the lead product is an oil that you claim is a miracle cure for acne.
12:25Is that correct?
12:26Yes.
12:26So, look, there are many rosehip oils on the market.
12:30Some are cheaper than yours.
12:31Some of them are more expensive.
12:42Which one of them is your miracle cure?
12:47Erm...
12:47So, I would say one of these three could be mine.
12:50Which one are you going to say is yours?
12:52I would have to smell it.
12:53OK.
12:56I believe this one's mine.
12:58Was that a guess?
12:59These ones may be darker in colour, but they lack potency.
13:02I could tell from the smell immediately.
13:04And I hope this one's mine if it's not mine.
13:06And what if it's not yours?
13:07I hope it is, Mike.
13:08I could be wrong.
13:11Well, congratulations.
13:12You've got it right.
13:15Oh, we got someone else up.
13:17Lawrence.
13:17Claude will see you now.
13:18Here we go, guys.
13:19Good luck, Lawrence.
13:20Good luck.
13:21Adios, guys.
13:22See you on the other side.
13:24That'll be interesting, because I think he's quite confident.
13:28Pleasure to meet you.
13:32So, Lawrence, start off by telling me what the business is that you're pitching to Lord Sugar.
13:38So, the business idea is twofolds.
13:40It's a PR agency, and the PR agency is underpinned by a technology which will improve the results,
13:46the speed, and the quality of the work, and hopefully, eventually, it can be sold to other
13:50agencies as well.
13:52So, obviously, it'll come as no surprise to you that I've read your business plan.
13:57Yes.
13:57And I get a bit of a shock, really, because the fact is that the investment that Lord
14:03Sugar is making is £250,000.
14:05That's correct.
14:06OK.
14:06But that's not correct in terms of what you're seeking.
14:09Yes.
14:10So, you are asking for a funding requirement, which is £5.5 million.
14:16Before we even start, you've excluded yourself from this whole process.
14:20It's not funny.
14:21I'm not laughing.
14:22It's very serious.
14:22You are laughing.
14:23That isn't up front.
14:24But you're saying that £500,000, at the very least, is up front, isn't it?
14:28If I want to grow the business at the speed, which I'm suggesting, but I can do it slower.
14:32I wanted to grow it at a fast pace.
14:35That's not what this whole process is about.
14:36I'm not asking for £5.5 million up front.
14:39That's...
14:39OK.
14:40OK.
14:40Show me where you've got a profit and loss account, which shows £250,000 start.
14:46Show me.
14:47First of all, I can't see a profit and loss account anywhere.
14:49There.
14:49There's the financial model.
14:50Are you joking?
14:51Are you joking?
14:52You want me to look at that?
14:53I understand, but I wanted to...
14:54I can't read it.
14:54I can't read.
14:55Can you read that?
14:56I understand.
14:57But it is all there.
15:00The investment is £250,000.
15:02I don't know how we get past that, to be honest with you.
15:04I mean, you want to argue with Lord Sugar, you can.
15:06OK.
15:06Lawrence, good luck.
15:08Thank you very much.
15:08I really appreciate the time.
15:17Hello, everyone.
15:21Hi, Lawrence.
15:22How was it?
15:23He loved it.
15:24He's going to invest all the money himself.
15:26Now it was a car crash.
15:27Clearly.
15:28The problem is, is it's a tech business, and it requires a lot of investment, and I wanted
15:33to show that I was being ambitious by sort of getting it going as quickly as possible,
15:36but it does need more than the £250,000, and I know what I was trying to do.
15:40I was trying to show ambition, but if he doesn't want to hear it, I can't change that.
15:43Yeah.
15:45Pasha, Claudine is ready for you now.
15:48Oh, my God.
15:48Oh, here you go.
15:49Good luck, Pasha.
15:50Good luck.
15:52Nice to meet you.
15:54Nice to meet you.
15:54Take a seat.
15:57So before I delve into your business plan, tell me a bit about your job now.
16:02So I'm a principal consultant within a recruitment company, and I'm the top biller, and yeah,
16:10I've made a name for myself.
16:11Well done.
16:12Good for you.
16:13Tell me succinctly about the business that you want Lord Sugar to invest in.
16:18So my business is a recruitment company within the private care sector.
16:22And the name of your business, and cool.
16:27Yeah.
16:28It's a body part.
16:29If you say it in a, yeah.
16:32How else?
16:33And cool.
16:34And cool.
16:35And cool.
16:36And cool.
16:36Yeah.
16:37You do say in your CV, your key skills is social media marketing.
16:43Tell me what the difference is between LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.
16:47Well, LinkedIn is a business tool.
16:49So why then would you put pictures like this up on LinkedIn?
16:54Because that doesn't scream to me the person that I want to recruit for my care home.
17:00I can understand where you're coming from.
17:02But then saying you're a social media marketing person.
17:05Yeah, that's probably a bit of an exaggeration.
17:09The business that I'd like Lord Sugar's investment in is a graduate recruitment company,
17:14which is a natural evolution of my existing business,
17:16which is currently working in the school lever and apprenticeship market.
17:19From what I'm reading, the business for Lord Sugar's investment
17:23relies heavily on the infrastructure of the current business,
17:27YP, Young Professionals.
17:29Yeah.
17:29But you make it very clear in your business plan
17:32that the current business is not part of the deal.
17:36So what I'm doing, because I've already got a team in place
17:38that know our clients very well, they know how the events are going.
17:41They're young professionals, aren't they?
17:42Their time is going to be split across both businesses, which I...
17:45How do you...
17:46Yeah.
17:46You've been trialling it for nine months.
17:48Is that right?
17:49Yeah, so...
17:50How do you possibly expect Lord Sugar to invest in YP grads
17:54when it's so intermixed with young professionals?
17:57You're not going to propose that to him, are you?
18:00That's obviously not a viable option for Lord Sugar.
18:02It's a non-starter.
18:04Oh, here he comes.
18:06How was it?
18:08Well...
18:08Ooh, what is that silence about?
18:12It was very clear to me that Lord Sugar wants everything
18:16and not a new graduate business.
18:18How do you know that?
18:19You know, she said that, look, they're technically the same company.
18:22He's going to want half of everything.
18:24So that's a big decision I've got to make.
18:26And, um, yeah.
18:28Priyash, Mike will see you now.
18:30Oh, God.
18:32Get ready for a fight, my friends.
18:33Thanks, guys.
18:34Good luck, mate.
18:36I reckon he's dressed.
18:38Doors closing.
18:40Listen, Priyash always backs himself,
18:42but I think that Mike is going to give him a really tough time.
18:46Hello.
18:47Take a seat, please.
18:50So, Priyash.
18:51Yeah.
18:51Have you registered your company?
18:53Um, I haven't, no.
18:55So, I mean, is it really a business if it's not registered?
18:58Um, at the moment, I do operate as a small mobile bar service
19:01for small events.
19:03Does it have accounts?
19:04Sorry, accounts? No, it does not.
19:06So, yeah, it's not registered at Companies House?
19:09No.
19:09And you don't keep a set of accounts?
19:13Correct.
19:14So, I would call that a hobby, then, rather than a business?
19:16Business, yeah.
19:17Listen, I'd like you to demonstrate to me now
19:19what is so special about your business.
19:27I'd like you to make me a cocktail.
19:29No, as in which ingredients, sorry?
19:31Oh, the ingredients.
19:33Yeah.
19:34Stay there.
19:46I'd like you to make me a Paloma.
19:49Paloma?
19:50OK.
19:51I've not made one of those for years.
19:54Is there any ice, or should I use with that?
19:57There's ice there.
19:58Oh, OK.
19:59Uh, grapefruit juice.
20:03How much tequila are you putting in?
20:04Uh, double shot.
20:08Normally, when I do do these recipes,
20:09I do normally search them up beforehand,
20:11because, obviously, I can't remember every single cocktail.
20:13I'm only asking you to remember a Paloma.
20:16And what's that?
20:17Uh, this is contrary.
20:19And then I'm just going to put some grapefruit juice in.
20:22Is this where you do your flare thing?
20:24Oh, no, I'm not a flare bartender.
20:26Oh, that's disappointing.
20:27Yeah.
20:27Surely you can do some tricks.
20:29No, no, I can only do, like, things like that.
20:40My first Paloma of the day.
20:45No Paloma I've ever had in my entire life has Cointreau in it.
20:50Ah.
20:50However, it's drinkable.
20:55OK.
20:56Thank you for your time.
20:57I'll show you a drink.
21:07The thing that I'm persuaded about is the social media.
21:11So, if, in fact, you've got people who are really famous,
21:15if they start endorsing it, I think that's worth a lot.
21:18Yeah, absolutely.
21:19So, because of my, like, history with social media,
21:22I've spent the last seven years reviewing products,
21:25and I've been so honest about it
21:26with hundreds of thousands of people across the world.
21:29Hundreds of thousands?
21:30Yeah.
21:30Is that an exaggeration?
21:32I would even say millions.
21:34Millions?
21:34Yeah.
21:34But let me just move on to these numbers, then.
21:37Are you telling me you've made £116,000 net profit?
21:40No, that's not, that's not what that is,
21:42but in terms of units...
21:43That's not what that is.
21:44What is it?
21:44What is that number?
21:45That's how much we'd make.
21:47What, profit here?
21:49Yeah, profit, yeah.
21:50We mean profit, yeah, but that's not what you're making.
21:53What are you making?
21:54Do you know?
21:55Yeah, I do know, actually.
21:56That would be profit if I was to sell 5,000 units,
22:00but this is...
22:01Numbers are my weakness, Claude, I'm going to be honest,
22:03and I know you're here to look for the numbers
22:05and I know that you can see through that,
22:07but I'm feeling confident about the numbers
22:09I can present to Lord Sugar
22:10and I feel like he'd be confident
22:11that I can grow those numbers very quickly.
22:13Look, you've spoken very, very well,
22:15but for me, I like to see probably hard numbers.
22:19Thank you for your time.
22:20Thanks a lot.
22:24My numbers made no sense to me or to him.
22:29Here she is.
22:30How did it go?
22:31That couldn't have gone any worse.
22:33No.
22:34Yeah, there's no excuse.
22:36Me saying I'm new to business
22:37and sorry I don't have the numbers for you.
22:40So how are you feeling, Karishma?
22:43Not good, guys.
22:53Hello, Claude.
22:54My pleasure.
22:56It's lovely to get a handshake.
22:58How are you?
22:59I'm very well, thank you.
23:00You've said in your business plan
23:02that you communicate like a smart operator
23:04who cuts the nonsense and gets results.
23:08And yet the business plan is 75 pages long,
23:11full of jargons and acronyms.
23:14Did you actually write this or was this written by AI?
23:17No, I wrote this.
23:18So I was having a conversation with the AI
23:20to help it improve my work and my ideas
23:22and I have all of the logs.
23:23You're a PR man, right?
23:25You know, you are engaging.
23:27This is anything but engaging.
23:29Hmm.
23:30I mean, PR mainly.
23:32It's about who you know
23:33at various publications and media.
23:36So do you have contacts
23:37at like the Financial Times yourself?
23:39Of course, yeah.
23:40Yeah, so who's your most senior contact at the FT?
23:42At the FT,
23:45I'm just trying to think through the FT.
23:47I do know people,
23:48but I'm trying to remember their names.
23:50Laura,
23:52oh, I've forgotten her last name
23:54off the top of my head.
23:55Okay, don't worry.
23:56I can't know her that well.
23:57No, I've worked with her on a story,
23:59but it has been a little while.
24:00I'm happy to list off contacts
24:02at other places that I know,
24:03but it's just whether you want to hear that.
24:05No, not at the moment, thanks.
24:08If you can go into a little bit more detail
24:09about how you intend to run this business.
24:12So working in the recruitment sector,
24:14recruiting for care homes and nursing homes,
24:17I realised there's a massive gap in the market
24:19with client-facing.
24:20We're not meeting our clients,
24:21we're not having that face relationship.
24:23Having spent a lot of time in hospital myself,
24:26I think it's something that's very worthy,
24:28but the whole point is
24:29to actually provide that service,
24:32but also end up with a profit.
24:33Of course.
24:34I don't know whether the word
24:35profit and loss account means anything to you.
24:37No.
24:38Those are absolutely key things.
24:40So I think the business plan is woeful
24:42because it doesn't contain any of the things
24:45that someone like me would look for.
24:47Of course.
24:50We've had two opportunities now
24:52to show them who we are.
24:54I'm hoping that by the end of the day,
24:57three out of four of those people
24:58I've managed to impress.
25:00Yeah, I mean, like,
25:01we all knew these interviews
25:02were going to be absolutely brutal,
25:03and I think with Claude, you know,
25:05I can't change anything about it,
25:06but that's about as bad as it could go.
25:09Oh.
25:10Karishma, Linda is ready to see you now.
25:21One of your biggest challenges
25:23is you're going on the medical side
25:26because you're curing acne.
25:28That's one of your claims to fame, right?
25:31But rosehip and aloe vera,
25:33they're nothing special, are they?
25:34There are products on the market
25:36similar to what I have.
25:37But you're claiming,
25:38oh, look, I had terrible acne,
25:40and now it's all cured.
25:41It's a medical claim there.
25:43Yeah.
25:44But nowhere, nowhere has this backed it up.
25:46With the oil, it's not just acne.
25:49There's a huge umbrella of things that help.
25:50Look, I'm not buying it.
25:51Yours isn't special.
25:52So, how...
25:53You're going to scale 55,000 in year one
25:56to 850,000 in year three.
26:00Do you think that's overly ambitious?
26:02I don't think so.
26:02We've currently done 55,000 pounds in sales
26:05in just five months.
26:06But you haven't detailed that
26:07in the business planning.
26:08There's such gaping holes in this business plan.
26:10I've given a month-by-month breakdown.
26:11I think you've come with a whole load of waffle.
26:14Yeah.
26:14You've talked the talk.
26:16You've...
26:16I don't think I was allowed to really talk the talk
26:18in this interview.
26:19What I've taken from this,
26:20you have missed so much out.
26:22Mm-hmm.
26:22The interview is over.
26:24Uh, thank you for your time, Linda.
26:29Hello, Karishma.
26:31Are you OK?
26:32Genuinely, that went as bad as it possibly could have gone.
26:35And it is what it is.
26:36But on to the next, mate.
26:37On to the next.
26:38I'm shitting myself now.
26:41I don't want to meet her.
26:43Priyash, Claudine is ready to see you now.
26:46Oh, good luck.
26:47Good luck, mate.
26:47Best of luck, mate.
26:48Have fun.
26:48Cheers, thank you.
26:49Thanks, guys.
26:53Claudine is a little bit kinder,
26:55so hopefully for him it's all good.
26:58Hi, Priyash.
26:59Hi, Claudine.
26:59How are you?
27:00I'm fine.
27:00How are you?
27:01Oh, good, thank you.
27:02Good.
27:02Nice to meet you.
27:03Nice to meet you.
27:03Take a seat.
27:05Um, Priyash,
27:06let's talk a bit about your proposed business.
27:08So how many events have you run in the past year?
27:12Um, so the events that I currently do
27:13are only very small events,
27:15like private parties,
27:16less than, like, 50, 60 people.
27:18What's your turnover?
27:19Around about 7,500 usually.
27:22Right, so your events,
27:24just family and friends at the moment.
27:26Correct, yes,
27:26and, like, small private parties.
27:28You've said that your marketing budget
27:29is £12,000 a year.
27:31What on earth do you expect to get for that?
27:34So a lot of my marketing I want to do
27:36is work with event planners and partnerships
27:38with, like, DJs
27:39because I feel at the moment
27:40that there is a gap in the market
27:41where who would you call
27:43if you're hosting a party at home?
27:44There isn't, like, someone
27:45that you would just randomly call,
27:47oh, I know this good bartender.
27:48I think there are loads of mobile bars around.
27:51I definitely don't think
27:53that there is a gap in the market.
27:55And there are even mobile bars
27:58with the same name as yours.
28:00Do you know that?
28:01Oh, no, I didn't.
28:02There's a very big boozy bar in Hampshire
28:06and there's also one in Ireland, so.
28:14So, you know, like,
28:15Clooney was a nice one,
28:16but it was tougher than I expected.
28:18Really?
28:19I think I'm just going to laugh
28:20because I don't want to cry.
28:21I'm actually done with this.
28:29I wonder how Lawrence is getting along
28:33with Mike.
28:34One thing I can tell about Mike.
28:36Take a seat.
28:37He hates a schmoozer.
28:40Lawrence.
28:41Yes.
28:42You've got a good track record in PR, correct?
28:45I like to think so, yeah.
28:46You were one of the 30 under 30 PRs.
28:50Yeah, I was very proud of that.
28:51That was a big achievement
28:52for me and my family.
28:53Lawrence, your business plan is detailed.
28:56Rigorous.
28:57And comprehensive.
28:59I appreciate that.
29:00But it's a masterclass
29:01in how to make a really glamorous industry
29:03sound like a tax return.
29:05I don't think that's right.
29:07Seriously?
29:07It's one of the most tedious business plans
29:09I've ever read.
29:11That's quite all right.
29:12So what will this AI platform
29:15that you're planning to build,
29:16what will it do?
29:17It's going to give a client a portal
29:19where they can access all of their assets
29:20and basically help them to do their jobs
29:22faster, better, quicker
29:23and deliver better results as well.
29:24Have you built it, your platform?
29:26I have not built it yet.
29:27That's why I'm here asking for the investment.
29:29You've got a chief technology officer
29:32to lead the technical development
29:34of the platform.
29:35Correct.
29:35And is he your business partner?
29:36He is not my business partner.
29:38Is he an employee?
29:39He would be under that model, yes.
29:41So you can't build it
29:43because you don't have the skills to do it?
29:44No.
29:44Would Lord Sugar be better
29:46backing your technology guy?
29:49No, absolutely not.
29:51Thanks, Lawrence.
29:52Thank you very much.
29:52It's been a real pleasure.
29:58You're currently in a hole
29:59that your business is losing money.
30:02You're aware of that?
30:03Yeah.
30:03I know that my finances,
30:05I mean, they're not the best,
30:06but I've probably just gone a bit too happy
30:08spending being young
30:09and we hire out huge venues
30:11in Leicester Square.
30:12We've got the O2 hired out this July
30:14for our big events.
30:15Unless you can manage
30:16to get control of your existing business,
30:18I think you're going to be in trouble.
30:19But I'd be amazed
30:20if your business can't be turned around
30:23with Alan Sugar.
30:24The only way that Lord Sugar
30:25would be interested
30:26is getting a 50% share
30:29of your existing business
30:30to make it right.
30:32And what do you think
30:32he could bring to me
30:33if I'm looking for someone
30:35to really take the business
30:36to the next level?
30:36I know I'm doing almost
30:37around a million, you know,
30:38I want to get to 10, 20 million.
30:39The thing is,
30:40there's no doubt
30:41that he's got a history
30:42of growing businesses enormously.
30:44I think that he'd be
30:45a fantastic partner for you.
30:47But ultimately,
30:48it's your decision.
30:49Got a big decision to make, yeah.
30:50Yeah.
30:53Your business plan,
30:54it was just seven pages long.
30:56Yeah.
30:57It kind of looked to me
30:58like you could have jotted it
30:59all down on a napkin.
31:01What is your competitive advantage?
31:03It's no good saying
31:04recruit with more heart,
31:06more style,
31:06more efficiency.
31:07They're just meaningless cliches.
31:09They're not meaningless cliches
31:11because for the short time
31:12that I've worked in the industry,
31:14I've understood
31:15what the gap is in the market.
31:17There's not enough substance here.
31:18There's not enough grit.
31:19A seven-page business plan,
31:21how is that convincing?
31:22I do regret not putting more into it.
31:25I really do.
31:25That's because you're inexperienced.
31:28Yeah.
31:32She's brutal.
31:34She taught facts,
31:35I can't lie.
31:36Like, she said,
31:37you're inexperienced.
31:38But I just sat there,
31:39like, took it like a champ.
31:40We've got the trauma together bond.
31:42We've got the trauma bond of Linda.
31:44Do you know what?
31:45Like, she says it how it is.
31:46Yeah, I mean,
31:47she doesn't beat around the bush,
31:48but still.
31:50Karishma,
31:50Claudine will see you now.
31:52Good luck, my girl.
31:53Come on, Claudine.
31:54Turn my lady around.
31:55Good energy.
31:56Turn it around.
31:57She will.
31:57She will.
31:58I know it.
31:59Oh.
32:00I want to ask you a bit
32:02about yourself, really,
32:03because you obviously
32:05have a huge drive
32:06and determination.
32:08How's the motivation
32:09and the drive come to you?
32:10My dad was,
32:11at one point,
32:12a very financially stable man.
32:14Now we have very little
32:15to get through each month,
32:16and it's why I'm here,
32:17because for me,
32:18at the core of my business plan
32:19is rent is due on the 22nd.
32:21Today, my rent is due today,
32:23has been my thought.
32:24And it's sad for me
32:25that we're moving every six months.
32:27Money is just such a big issue
32:29for us right now,
32:30but I want to give him the world.
32:32Everything I do,
32:32my dad's at the very core of it.
32:34I want to do him very proud
32:35in this life.
32:36Karishma,
32:36I think that your dad
32:38and your family
32:39would be so proud of you,
32:41and I wish you all the best.
32:44Thank you, Claudine.
32:45You've absolutely made my day.
32:47Thank you very much.
32:48I wanted to get to meet you today.
32:49Thank you very much.
32:50Bye.
32:51Bye-bye.
32:54On your business plan,
32:56the $250,000
32:58that Lord Sugar's going to give you,
32:59it's going to be immediately consumed.
33:01It's to build the technology,
33:03but I...
33:03So, do you think he's going to be happy with that,
33:05that the $250,000's just immediately gone?
33:07Would Lord Sugar rather have 50% of a business
33:09worth $250,000
33:10or 5% of a business worth $50 million?
33:13This isn't about his ego.
33:14Well, I think it's about yours,
33:16if you think this business
33:17is going to be worth $50 million.
33:18I wonder what Lawrence is getting up to with Linda.
33:21I reckon she could get criminals
33:22to confess their crimes.
33:24Oh, yeah, for sure.
33:25So, let's talk about the time frame.
33:28Yes.
33:28Because all these AI features
33:30can take a considerable amount of time to develop.
33:33What if they don't work?
33:34What are you going to do?
33:35I mean, what if I walk out of here
33:38and I get hit by the car?
33:39Look, don't...
33:39You know, these are...
33:40Look, I am interviewing you for £250,000.
33:44Do not give me cocky answers like that.
33:47Yes, it is.
33:47You've come here for an investment
33:49of £250,000.
33:51I apologise.
33:53Yes, thank you.
33:53I just want to be very clear, though,
33:55that if there is not the appetite
33:57from Lord Sugar to build the technology,
33:59I'm willing to scale back
34:01and create the agency first.
34:02I'm not coming in here
34:03with a rod saying that I have to do this.
34:05Yeah, you have.
34:06You should have actually come in here
34:08with a business plan that was attainable.
34:10That's the mistake.
34:11I believe that there's...
34:12The interview is over.
34:13Thank you very much.
34:14I really appreciate the time,
34:15so thank you very much.
34:15Good.
34:18Doors closing.
34:19Goodness me.
34:23Lawrence.
34:23That was fiery.
34:26Oh, how did that go, mate?
34:28Well, suffice to say,
34:30I don't think it could have gone much worse.
34:32She basically was just calling me cocky
34:33and she got really, really cross with me at one point.
34:36Really?
34:36Really cross.
34:37And I was like, listen,
34:38I'm sorry if that's the way I'm coming across,
34:40but that's not my intention.
34:41Yeah, mate.
34:41It was a really tough interview.
34:43That was not fun.
34:44Like, it was not fun at all.
34:46Priyash, Claude wants to see you.
34:47Oh, Claude!
34:48Oh, Claude!
34:49Good luck, mate.
34:50See you soon.
34:51I feel for the boy.
34:53Oh, man, it's going to be such a grilling.
34:56Hi there.
34:57Come here.
34:57Please take a seat.
34:58Sure.
35:01OK, Priyash, when I first saw your business plan...
35:05Yeah.
35:05..I thought that I'd be meeting somebody sensible
35:08because you're working for PwC,
35:11and what I found was not that at all.
35:14Oh, OK.
35:14OK?
35:15Year two, you've got £100,000 profit,
35:18and year three, you've kind of embarrassed me
35:21by saying that you've got revenue of £1.1 million
35:23and £500,000 profit.
35:25Well, because the fact is, in year two and three,
35:28we'll be entering the retail world of supermarkets
35:29and things like that.
35:30You've got to get into it.
35:31You've got to show me how you're going to get into it.
35:33Yeah.
35:33You mentioned supermarkets as though they're just waiting for you.
35:36Yeah.
35:36Every supermarket's waiting.
35:37They're not.
35:38They're not.
35:38It's a crowded place.
35:39I'm willing to put in all that extra work.
35:41I'm sure you haven't given me enough to go on
35:43to give me the confidence.
35:44Sorry, I just...
35:46You've brought the failure on yourself.
35:50You are quite the man.
35:52You made your first million at £25,
35:54you have a holiday home in Marbella
35:56and you joined the Institute of Directors at 17
36:00and you said that you have time
36:02to go to the gym three times a week
36:04to shop in Harrods, to go skiing.
36:06Why on earth do you need Lord Sugar?
36:09It's a very good question.
36:10It is.
36:10I think with Lord Sugar,
36:12he can really mentor me,
36:13take me under his wing
36:14and, you know,
36:15help me get to where I want to get a lot faster.
36:17And how have you found this process?
36:20I found it quite difficult in a lot of cases.
36:22You know, I've got Asperger's and I've got dyslexia
36:25and I sometimes feel like I've said things
36:28and it's come across the wrong way in certain situations.
36:31Because of my Asperger's,
36:32it took me a good couple of tasks,
36:33three tasks to settle in
36:34and really get to know people
36:35because I was kind of in my shell a little bit.
36:37Yeah.
36:37How did you find living with all those people?
36:39It was a big shock to the system.
36:41I adapted quite well.
36:42I've made some really great friends for life,
36:44I think, being here.
36:44Oh, that's good.
36:46Dan, you really are an incredible young man
36:49with what you've achieved
36:50and I just want to wish you all the best.
36:52Yeah, thank you for your time, Claudine.
36:54I really appreciate it.
36:55Okay, take care, Dan.
36:56And just a question,
36:58what do you think I should do?
36:59Because I'm in a really difficult position.
37:02I've never known anyone to fail
37:04partnering with Lord Sugar.
37:06He makes a huge success
37:07of the people that he partners with.
37:14I'm going to see how the boardroom goes tomorrow.
37:16When I get into that boardroom tomorrow,
37:17I'm going to listen to what he's got to say
37:20and I'll know in that moment.
37:22Mm.
37:23Well, good luck, Dan.
37:23You do have a lot of thinking to do.
37:25Yeah.
37:25We've got a really big day tomorrow in the boardroom,
37:27so I think we should head back to the house.
37:29Yes, I think so too.
37:30Let's do it, guys.
37:31Let's go.
37:48I feel like I've put up a really good fight.
37:51You know, I've backed myself throughout the process
37:52and I had to do it yesterday,
37:53so feeling like I've got a chance,
37:55if not a big one.
37:56I've still got a lot to think about.
37:58I've got a lot of things going around
38:00in my head right now.
38:02This £250,000 could change my life
38:04and I hope that he picks me.
38:16Good morning.
38:17Good morning.
38:18Good morning.
38:19Well, look, I do appreciate your input
38:22into this final five.
38:2420 years, Claude.
38:26And you look the same.
38:28You really do.
38:30Well, let's start off, shall we?
38:32So, Priyash has two parts to his business.
38:36One is a mobile bar
38:39and the second is a line of cocktails
38:43which are ready to drink.
38:45Okay.
38:46And he's a lovely, effervescent man,
38:48but the business plan is incredibly weak.
38:52It's not really there.
38:54At the moment, he does about 48 events a year
38:58and he makes about £156 per event.
39:02Oh, my goodness.
39:03He wants to extend it.
39:04I mean, there's a side hustle
39:05and then there's a side hustle.
39:07Yeah.
39:08Okay, Claude.
39:08He's got a job at Pricewaterhouse.
39:11It looks like a good, solid job
39:12and I thought he was going to be a serious individual.
39:15Then I turned to his mixing thing
39:17and I thought, no, this guy's a joker.
39:19He's going into an industry
39:20where he doesn't know very much about it.
39:23So, the interview didn't last very long,
39:25especially when I looked at some of his numbers.
39:26Turnover, £500,000 in year two, £100,000 profit.
39:29Year three, £1 million turnover, £500,000 profit.
39:33You know, but believe it or not,
39:34if you look at his CV,
39:36he's got a mathematics and economics degree.
39:39He might have bought it on Amazon.
39:40Yeah.
39:42He's not a silly man.
39:43No, he's got a good job.
39:45Yeah, so I think that he should stick with a job,
39:47get promoted and on the sideline weekends,
39:50he should grow his business.
39:51So, obviously, his plan hasn't left anyone shaken or stirred,
39:55isn't it, really?
39:56No.
39:57No.
39:58Should we move on to someone else, then?
40:00Karishma.
40:01Yeah.
40:02Let's go on to her.
40:03Yeah.
40:03Karishma has a skincare product.
40:07She used it because she had, as a teenager, she had acne.
40:11I know all about acne.
40:13I grew up there.
40:17So, I think that Karishma has two real advantages.
40:20She's very skilled at social media.
40:21She creates very compelling content there.
40:24And the second thing is, she has a personal story.
40:27She sells through TikTok and through other social media platforms.
40:32Well, I was completely taken by her Instagram,
40:35and I did actually buy the product, and I really liked it.
40:39I mean, look, I'm, like, 75.
40:42To be fair, every task that's involved social media,
40:45she has performed really well.
40:46So, that makes sense, actually.
40:48And she does have a biomedical science degree, as well,
40:50with a speciality in dermatology.
40:53Claude, what do you have to say?
40:54Well, I liked her.
40:55She spoke well.
40:56She had a lot to say for herself.
40:57I personally think that the industry is a very crowded market,
41:01and everyone makes these great claims
41:03about what it's going to do for you.
41:05That's my view.
41:06But I think that she's got a following,
41:09so she's got influencers, and I think that's the key.
41:11All right, let's move along.
41:13So, Lawrence, his main claim to fame
41:15is he runs the worst Jewish football club in London, right?
41:20Which I should imagine,
41:22since he's been away for about 11 weeks,
41:24he might be top of the league by now.
41:27So, Lawrence is a very ambitious young PR man.
41:32He's been working in PR for several years,
41:34and, indeed, he was named recently
41:36as one of the 30 under-30 PRs.
41:40And that is not to be sniffed at.
41:42What he would like to use your investment for
41:44is to launch his own PR company.
41:47Well, that makes sense, yeah.
41:49And then to have that underpinned
41:52by an AI-driven tech platform
41:55to take a lot of the manual labour out of PR work.
41:59He's convinced he can take that AI platform
42:02and he can quite label it and sell it.
42:04I don't get that.
42:05You know, PR is all about, you know, PR.
42:08Well, you would know.
42:08I mean, look who's sitting here now.
42:10Yeah, so I said exactly that to him.
42:12It's about being engaging.
42:14His business plan was 75 pages of monotony.
42:19You think it was done by AI?
42:21AI, yes.
42:22Oh, my God.
42:23Claude, there's some talk of him wanting
42:25something like £5 million or something like that.
42:27Well, what is the matter with a boy?
42:29I mean, on page four, he declares he wants £5.5 million,
42:33of which he needs a substantial amount to start him off.
42:36I got on really badly with him.
42:38And when I challenged him, he said,
42:39well, I could do it for £250,000.
42:41But his whole business plan is predicated on £5.5 million.
42:46So, essentially, I pretty much threw him out.
42:48You need to come back and win this process 23 times.
42:51Yes, you need to.
42:5223 times, yeah.
42:54All right, let's go next to Pasha, yeah?
42:56Well, so she wants to go into nursing homes and things like that.
43:00Recruiting things like carers and people like that.
43:02Yes, yes.
43:03But her approach is really a personal one,
43:05where she's going to the care homes,
43:06try and explain how she's got a personal touch,
43:09and she then hopes that through that...
43:11Where's the money there?
43:13Well, yes, where's the money?
43:14The business plan's only seven pages.
43:16Yeah, seven pages, yeah.
43:18It's like Lawrence is on a Zempick, maybe, yeah.
43:21I did buy into her.
43:22She's really young,
43:24and I would never have known, to be honest,
43:27that she was 21, the way that she's speaking,
43:29and she held herself.
43:30She's very confident.
43:31Yeah, very confident.
43:33She's obviously impressed all of us,
43:34just the way that she comes across.
43:36So, look, I wouldn't rule her out
43:38if anybody was going to make a success of a business like this.
43:41I think it would be Pasha.
43:42All right, let's move on to Dan.
43:44Yeah, so it's two companies.
43:46It's Young Professionals.
43:47That's the existing company.
43:48Yeah.
43:49And the company he wants to partner you with, Alan,
43:52is YP Grads.
43:53That's a new company.
43:55He's done a trial for nine months on that company
43:58and turned over 55,000.
44:01But...
44:02And therein lies the problem.
44:04To do a trial is use the existing staff to do it.
44:08Yeah.
44:08So he's trying to tell me
44:09that this separate business is going to run separately.
44:12There's no way.
44:13So, one of the assets that he has within his business is
44:16he has a very, very deep database
44:19because he works with schools.
44:21Yeah.
44:21And that's one of the real benefits
44:22of putting the two businesses together
44:25because clearly he's able to track people
44:28from the age where they're starting to leave school
44:31through into their first job and or into graduates
44:33and then beyond.
44:35Claude?
44:35Well, my feeling about him is that he's an entrepreneur.
44:38Mm-hmm.
44:39OK?
44:39He started a business from nothing when he was young.
44:42Obviously, I can't see the background.
44:44I can see the last couple of years
44:45where he's gone from making a profit
44:47to a situation where currently he's losing money.
44:51Right.
44:51The problem is, I think, he's taken his eye off the ball.
44:54He's got very, very high expenses.
44:56So, when he runs an event, for example,
44:59it can cost him £120,000 to hire the O2 Centre.
45:03I see.
45:03So, he's got to get a handle on these enormous costs
45:06of events costing £100,000 to put on.
45:09All right.
45:10Well, thanks for all of that.
45:12You've given me a lot of things to think about.
45:14And I appreciate it once again in this 20th year.
45:18So, thank you.
45:27Could you send the candidates in, please?
45:41Well, I've had a discussion with them,
45:44and I'm going to drill down a little bit more with each of you.
45:50So, starting with you, Lawrence,
45:52you put forward a 70-page document, is that right?
45:55A little bit longer, but roughly, yes.
45:58Did you write it yourself, or was it done by AI?
46:00I wrote everything by myself,
46:02and then I put it through AI to build through the ideas.
46:05But I was told by some of my advisors
46:09that you were endless waffling in the business plan.
46:13In fairness, I was talking about sort of funding cycles
46:15within technology,
46:16so I also wanted to make sure there was a lot of sections in there,
46:19and I was worried about not covering points off.
46:21So, yes, I do accept that it was quite long.
46:23Well, this is one of the faults with this AI stuff, you know?
46:27Everything that I put in there,
46:28I edited before it went into the business plan.
46:30Anyway, the point is,
46:32is that you're talking about wanting 5.5 million pounds.
46:37I mean, are you having a laugh, or what?
46:39So, that was future funding,
46:40so it was very clear in the financial model
46:42that this was not upfront funding.
46:43No, but I told you right in the very beginning,
46:46my money is kind of like a seed money, if you like.
46:49Yes.
46:49And all the other very successful winners in the past
46:53have taken that money,
46:54and I tell them one thing,
46:56that's it.
46:57You ain't getting any more.
46:58Not from you.
46:59And you just move on,
47:01and you build a business on it,
47:03and they have successfully built businesses on it.
47:05But this is nonsense.
47:07If you wanted me to walk before I run,
47:10and focus on the PR side...
47:12I certainly would suggest that of any of you here, really.
47:15Yeah.
47:15That's for sure.
47:16I wanted something I believed in,
47:17but, you know,
47:18I also believe in building a PR agency
47:20with that target market.
47:21Right, OK.
47:22A lot of words.
47:25Yeah, it sounds like my year three school report.
47:27Difficult, this is not school.
47:28I know.
47:29Right, OK.
47:31So, Pasha.
47:32Yes.
47:34Unlike Lawrence here,
47:36who came up with a 70-odd page document,
47:40yours was seven pages, right?
47:42Some of the figures, I was told,
47:44were a bit undercooked.
47:45Marketing budget is way too low.
47:47Yeah, that was underestimated.
47:49But the numbers that I've got in that
47:51are based off of what I do.
47:52And at the moment,
47:54you work in a company where you're a recruiter, yeah?
47:57Yeah, I'm a principal consultant.
47:58And are you known in the care home industry personally?
48:01Yes, I would say so.
48:03I've created a big clientele
48:05and I have managers that have my number on speed dial, so.
48:09OK.
48:10You also talk about the business plan hinges
48:12on highly personalised in-person relationships, yeah?
48:16The competition against regional and national giants
48:19will be fierce, won't it?
48:21That is correct.
48:22And I think recruitment, you know,
48:24there are so many recruitment companies
48:25that, you know, it can be hard to stand out.
48:28But with the knowledge and the experience that I've got,
48:32I know that, you know, I could take it off
48:34if I was to start my own company.
48:35I know that that wouldn't be an issue.
48:37OK.
48:38All right, let's move along.
48:41Now, Dan, my advisers tell me
48:44that your company's losing money.
48:46Yeah, I think it's not that we're spending money
48:48and losing money.
48:49The money is coming into the bank account,
48:50but I need to just get a bit of a better hold
48:52on saving the money
48:53and cutting down on our costs a little bit.
48:55I mean, we hire a lot of huge venue hires out.
48:57No, no, no, no, no.
48:58Dan, are your sales bigger than the venue costs?
49:02They are, yes.
49:04So why doesn't it show in your accounts as a profit?
49:08Because I'm spending the money.
49:10What are you spending it on?
49:11So, I mean, we pay...
49:13Houses in Marbella or what?
49:15I did take 100 grand dividends last year.
49:18And I also took a...
49:19It was around a £75,000 salary...
49:21So it is a profitable business then, right?
49:23OK.
49:24So now we move on to...
49:26You want to go from YP to YPG.
49:29And YPG is graduates, yeah?
49:33Yeah.
49:33And you've done a trial on that.
49:35And the trial that you've done
49:37must be using your existing staff.
49:39Our existing staff and existing...
49:41A select number of our existing client base.
49:43Yeah.
49:44Therein lies the problem.
49:45I wouldn't be investing in you with two companies
49:48because I need your concentration on one entity.
49:52So how's your feeling about that?
49:54I came into this process
49:56under the impression that I was going to be
49:57putting forward this new business.
49:58And I don't think I'd be being true to myself
50:00if I gave you a straight answer right now,
50:02whether it was a yes or a no.
50:05Right.
50:05Now, Karishma, tell me,
50:07what is your Miracle Cure product?
50:10So we've started with our Rosehip to the Rescue oil.
50:13This is a rosehip seed oil
50:14that's been extracted from a rare Chilean species.
50:17Does it work?
50:18It really works.
50:19Are you sure?
50:20We've had incredible...
50:21Look me in the eyes and tell me it works.
50:22I can tell you confidently.
50:23You're not a snake oil salesman.
50:25No.
50:25There's a lot of competition out there in the market.
50:27I'm very aware that I'd have to bring something
50:29very, very interesting
50:31and very, very functional, performative to the market
50:34to make any kind of dent.
50:35You do know that I had a skincare company.
50:38Yes, Lord Sugar.
50:38You are preaching to the converted, my dear.
50:41Yeah.
50:41What I've forgotten about skincare,
50:43you haven't even learned yet.
50:44Absolutely, I agree.
50:45Okay?
50:46The thing is, is that I know that I can succeed again
50:50if I wanted to.
50:52And I need you to tell me why I should have you
50:55as my business partner.
50:57Because at the moment,
50:58you haven't really got much of a business, right?
51:01Yeah.
51:01So in five months,
51:03Kishkin has done incredibly well.
51:06We've made an average of around 10,000 to 12,000 a month.
51:08And what was your costs?
51:09The costs are around 5,000 pounds a month.
51:12And that includes...
51:12That's you, is it?
51:14It includes my assistants, my warehouse staff.
51:16Is your warehouse staff one of your...
51:18It's your dad, isn't it?
51:20My dad helps me in the warehouse here and there.
51:21He does a bit of packing, yeah.
51:23He does.
51:23He really believes in the business
51:24and he's gone viral for it on the internet.
51:27Are you big on the internet?
51:28I have worked really hard over the last seven years
51:31to create the name for myself.
51:31Have you got lots of followers?
51:33Yes, Lord Sugar.
51:34How many have you got?
51:35Around half a million.
51:36Really?
51:36And what platform?
51:38On TikTok and I have over 300,000 on Instagram.
51:41Really?
51:42Yes, Lord Sugar.
51:43Very good.
51:43More than me.
51:44Oh, right.
51:46OK.
51:47Now, Priyash, let me hear about you.
51:50You've got your mobile bar.
51:52Correct, Lord Sugar.
51:53So you're a mixologist?
51:55Well, just...
51:56Where did you study mixology?
51:58The University of Wetherspoons or something?
52:00And now I've just learned the skill at home.
52:02See, you're not an unintelligent person at all.
52:06You've got a great job at PwC.
52:08Correct.
52:09And then you want to leave that company
52:11and then start this mobile bar business.
52:15And that's a massive risk.
52:16Over the years,
52:17I've been doing loads of numerous events
52:19for private parties,
52:20up to like 60 to 70 people.
52:22But I want to get into the large corporate industries.
52:24For example,
52:25like there's a lot more networking events happening.
52:27Listen, young men,
52:29I admire your enthusiasm and entrepreneurialism
52:32whilst holding up a great job.
52:35My advice to you is,
52:36please do not give up your day job.
52:39And I do sincerely wish you
52:41the very, very best of luck.
52:43But unfortunately,
52:44it is with regret that you're fired.
52:47Thank you so much for the opportunity,
52:49Lord Sugarvance Brady, Tim.
52:50If you do need cocktails,
52:52do reach out to me.
52:54Good luck, guys.
52:55Good luck.
52:59So now,
53:00I have to think about the four of you
53:02that are sitting here
53:03and the potential.
53:07Lawrence.
53:08That's Lord Sugarvance Brady.
53:09I don't have any confidence
53:11in your business.
53:13Why put forward a business plan
53:15that has got numbers in it
53:16like 5.5 million?
53:18It's nonsense.
53:19Lord Sugarvance Brady,
53:19the one thing.
53:20You're quiet.
53:20OK, no problem.
53:22Lawrence, I'm sorry to say,
53:23it is with regret.
53:24You're fired.
53:26Thank you, Lord Sugarvance.
53:27Thank you, Baroness Brady.
53:28Thank you, Tim.
53:28It's been the experience of a lifetime.
53:30Good luck.
53:30Good luck, guys.
53:37Now I've left with a bit of a dilemma.
53:40I'm going to send you three outside
53:41and then I'm going to consult
53:43with Baroness Brady and Tim.
53:45And then I'm going to decide
53:46which two of you
53:48will be going through
53:49to the grand final.
53:51Off you go.
53:52Thank you so much.
53:58Well, there you are.
53:59Young Karishma
54:00is very, very impressive,
54:02isn't she?
54:02Yeah.
54:03Look, I like her.
54:04I've liked her all along.
54:06She's such a strong candidate.
54:08Karishma's charismatic.
54:10She's really confident.
54:11And if she can convince you
54:12that she's thinking as big
54:13as her chat is,
54:14then maybe she could be the one.
54:16And Pasha is also very impressive.
54:19This would be a real
54:20start from scratch thing.
54:22I think the thing
54:23that really interests me
54:24with Pasha
54:25is that she is coming
54:27as a fresh face.
54:28And one of the things
54:28about The Apprentice
54:29is about the opportunity
54:31to spot talent
54:32before anybody else is.
54:33Yeah.
54:34Bit of confusion with Dan.
54:35Look, it's true
54:36that Dan has got
54:37a credible business.
54:38But as Claude has pointed out,
54:40he has to get control
54:41of his spending.
54:42He's now making a loss.
54:44All right.
54:45I know what I'm going to do.
54:50Yes, let's send
54:51the three of them in, please.
55:04OK, I'll try and keep this
55:06as short as I possibly can.
55:08OK.
55:10Krishma, the good news is
55:12you are going through
55:13to the grand final.
55:15Thank you so much, Lord Sugar.
55:16OK.
55:20Pasha, I've been there before
55:22with recruitment agencies
55:23and I've made one person
55:25a millionaire in that business.
55:27And he started with nothing
55:28other than winning this.
55:30And Dan, I don't understand
55:32your business at all.
55:34I know it's a good one
55:35somewhere.
55:36I know what I've built up
55:37since, you know,
55:38since I was a teenager.
55:39I know I've built up a career.
55:40No, I've got all that.
55:41I've heard all that.
55:41I've done it myself, mate.
55:43I've done there,
55:43bin, wore the T-shirt,
55:45worked in the factory,
55:46stuck on the production line,
55:48driven the vans,
55:49collected the money,
55:50all that stuff.
55:51So I don't want to hear
55:52any more about you started
55:53when you were 17
55:54and all that stuff.
55:55Yeah, great.
55:56So did I.
55:57So did a lot of people.
56:00Dan, your numbers
56:02are like a jungle.
56:04I'm not completely sure
56:06whether you understand
56:07them yourself.
56:08I certainly don't.
56:10And so it is with regret.
56:12Dan, you're fired.
56:14Thank you very much, Lord Sugar.
56:15Thank you, Baroness Brady
56:16and Tim.
56:16I've really learned a lot
56:17and all the best to you guys.
56:19Congratulations.
56:25So there you are, ladies.
56:27Congratulations.
56:29You're in the grand final.
56:31So I'll see you
56:32in a few days' time.
56:34Yeah?
56:34Okay?
56:35Off you go.
56:36Thank you so much.
56:37Congratulations, ladies.
56:39Well done.
56:47I'm feeling really proud of myself.
56:48I've learned so much
56:49being in this process
56:50and I couldn't have wished
56:51for any two better people
56:53to be in the grand final.
56:54Two girls in the final.
56:56It hasn't hit me.
56:57No, me neither.
56:58We're here.
56:58I'm like numb.
56:58We both deserve such a solid seat
57:00at this table
57:01and now it's me versus you.
57:03Love you, Carl.
57:04Smash it.
57:06Now, two candidates remain.
57:09The search for Lord Sugar's
57:10next business partner
57:12is almost over.
57:16Next time...
57:17For your final task,
57:18I'd like you to launch your businesses.
57:21Recruitment...
57:22I think you go straight in mental.
57:24Turning over.
57:25I just need more stuff.
57:27Or beauty.
57:28The one thing me and my ex
57:29have in common
57:29is that we kept looking
57:31for better options in the market.
57:33Only one can win.
57:34You're going to be
57:35my business partner.
57:40Well, there are more questions
57:41for our fired three.
57:42Head over to BBC Two
57:44for The Apprentice
57:44Unfinished Business now.
57:46And watch the drama
57:47where things are never
57:48as they seem.
57:49The Capture.
57:50Available now
57:51on BBC iPlayer.
58:04If you think you've got
58:06what it takes
58:06to become Lord Sugar's
58:07business partner,
58:09visit bbc.co.uk
58:10forward slash
58:11apprentice.
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