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00:07previously i want you to create your own fashion brand jordan took the top job we're going with
00:13menswear i definitely want it to be vibrant i want it to be out there but mia was pulling
00:18the strings could we be experimental and offer a dress on our range okay and their daring designs
00:25that is ridiculous who do you see popping down the shop wearing this tied them up in knots i wouldn't
00:31wear it personally chisola's branding bombed i don't think it would sell but her stylish sportswear
00:37focused on feeling fantastic through wearing recycled plastic flew off the rack total amount
00:44of units sold was 2150. and on the losing team who in their right mind is going to place an
00:51order for
00:51that liam i can't really forgive anybody for not giving their all and mia you were responsible
00:59for the disaster of these designs fell out of fashion i'm sorry to say you're fired now five
01:07candidates remain to fight for the chance to become lord sugar's business partner
01:24one week to go till the final showdown hello lord sugar would like you to meet him tomorrow morning
01:31at 22 bishop's gate in the city of london please bring your business plans thank you
01:41guys interviews are tomorrow
01:46how are we feeling actually really nervous this is what we came for to talk about our businesses
01:51it's not about the task it's about us and what we do should we go look our business plans yeah
01:56let's do it
01:59for the final five one last chance to polish up on their proposals next year i'll be turning over a
02:06million 30k average turnover per franchise despite the worst record in the process bright spark and
02:15nisa khan is offering lord sugar a slice of her pizza business i have a really strong academic
02:20background i got 12 stars went to a top uni i had a top corporate job but then i realized
02:26i'd rather be
02:26an entrepreneur and that's what led me to start my own business at age 22. 40 franchises by year five
02:32my immediate family weren't happy when i quit corporate to start my own business
02:37but i've worked my bones off to get this business off the ground first year profit over a hundred
02:42thousand pounds five year profit over 3.6 million this would be the most important interview of my life
02:49the stakes are so high there's only one winner in the end and that's gonna be me
02:56hoping to make a connection with her business networking app is 31 year old chisola chitambala
03:03hi mom it's me oh hi we are so so proud of you no i am definitely very nervous about
03:11these interviews
03:12i mean who wouldn't be like i want this so much and so bad that i know i don't want
03:17to mess up
03:22i've just got to rise up to the challenge i think it's all about getting my head in the game
03:25and
03:26focusing annual revenue for year five over 1.3 million my business might only be a concept right now
03:33but i need to show lord sugar that i've got the confidence that i've got the energy to be able
03:38to make
03:38him millions because that's exactly what i believe i can do
03:45despite being the youngest candidate jordan dargan has taken the process in his stride
03:51i'm 21 years old i talk a little bit different but i'm a bit quirky rough around the edges
03:56he's hoping to draw lord sugar into the 3d animation business for lord sugar i'm someone who has been in
04:03his shoes i've worked my way up from nothing to something and i'm not there yet i'm still on the
04:08come up so i think he sees that he sees something in me one million pound revenue by the end
04:14of year
04:14two there's some big boy numbers down lord sugar's investment would change my life and change my
04:20family's life you've worked really really hard for this we're really really proud jordan can mean
04:25definitely all right that's all i need i gotta do it now i'm not happy to be in the final
04:31five and call
04:32a day i'm here to show lord sugar what i'm made of
04:38convenience store owner amber rose badruddin is hoping her bubble tea business is to lord sugar's
04:45taste if i'm being completely honest i always envisioned myself being within the final five
04:52i came to this process because i wanted to win the investment and that's exactly what i'm going to do
04:58oh yeah that's the one with my first ever business at the age of 23 i was able to turn
05:05over six figures
05:05in the first six months i have no doubt that my new business with lord sugar would do the exact
05:10same
05:112029 one million seven hundred and thirty four thousand pounds one thing that i think i'm good at
05:18is the fact that i'm able to market myself as a brand with my new business the fact that i
05:23already have
05:24a following on social media just means that when i get the investment it's bound to be successful
05:3234 year old essex born dean franklin air conditioning is the future wants to take his
05:39homegrown firm to the next level i've never had anyone in my life who could teach me about business
05:46it's all been self-taught not only do we offer services we offer maintenance and repairs as well
05:52i've already got what i think is a successful business if i had lord sugar on board he would
05:57give me the mentorship to make it a big company a massive company i feel like i'm the best in
06:02essex
06:02but i want to be the best in the uk we're a tried and tested company and turning over a
06:08profit
06:09i'm doing this to secure my family's future hello daddy
06:16you all right guys i've missed you guys so much my kids are everything to me and
06:23if i'm making them proud it's it's just you've completed it you've completed life as a dad
06:31i'll love you and leave you i'm gonna go and read my business plan
06:35and i'm gonna bring home the win good luck dad oh thank you babe all of this is for them
06:42so i've
06:43gotta i've gotta bring it home
06:516am
06:59i know it's going to be hard and tough for all of us but i do just want us all
07:03to be able to do
07:04really well how are you feeling dean is there anything you're worried about you know what i'm
07:09not i'm not i've been saying this whole time yeah i'm not good at hot sauce i'm not good at
07:16kids
07:16banking apps but air conditioning i'm shit like that listen let's get him in them interviews and see
07:23how he's feeling afterwards towering over the city of london 22 bishopsgate
07:56the tallest building in the city of london now it's time to get down to business at the end of
08:06this
08:06process i will be investing 250 000 pounds in one of you so i've asked my most trusted advisors to
08:16assess both your business plans and your personal credentials so please hand your proposals over to tim and karen
08:35well good luck and i'll see you in the boardroom tomorrow off you go
08:42lying in wait separating fact from fiction publishing pioneer mike suitor you've taken both of those
08:49cuisines and you've put them together so therefore you've doubled the number of competitors surely you
08:55can see that head of a billion pound media firm and never afraid to get up close and personal claudine
09:02collins you've got a huge amount of followers on instagram i have to question your motives for being
09:07here is it to be famous and to use this as a platform rooting out wrongs in candidates plans global
09:15design agency founder linda plant you've got no real history you've got no real experience but scaling
09:21up to one million pound projected revenue in year two it's nonsense it's absolutely nonsense
09:29sniffing out plans that don't add up is business bloodhound claude litner you're not going to expand
09:35throughout the whole of uk are you i mean it's a big country it's a massive country yeah north south
09:39east west all over why not it doesn't matter no it goes that way that does matter they're not waiting
09:44for you definitely feeling the pressure and the nerves right now we have to make sure we know our
09:51business plan like the back of our hand it's definitely going to be the most difficult interviews
09:55of our lives yeah yeah there's going to be flaws in my business plan i've never written one before
10:00but it's about what i know so i'm confident okay i'm the first one up oh good luck anisa thank
10:08you
10:08you've got this girl i can't lie i'm happy it's not me walking up those stairs this just made it
10:16so
10:16real good morning i'm anisa nice sorry so anisa we'll start off by you telling me a little bit about
10:25this business so my business is indian style pizzas i've been operating it for three years as a dark
10:31kitchen so it's primarily just for delivery services and my goal is to have one my first brick and mortar
10:37store and two expand it to franchises all right your plan is to have this flagship store yes so the
10:45reason why i want at least one brick and mortar store is purely for the basis of marketing i can't
10:50necessarily get someone to come to my dark kitchen in the back of a restaurant it's not going to look
10:54good
10:54okay that's that's great but i wonder why you're rushing to market with some very different options
11:01when actually what you're doing could grow this business quite significantly by having more dark
11:07kitchens by expanding no you're right stop agreeing you're supposed to be saying no i didn't like yeah
11:11at some point in the future you can look to do something perhaps different but what it seems to me
11:16is you're rushing and launching into things before you've actually proved that actually you've got
11:21something that the market wants you're trying to do too much too quickly and you'll fail
11:28oh my gosh i'm nervous for this one guys yeah i'll see you guys later good luck
11:37with linda you have to stand around if you don't she's going to steamroll over you and leave
11:42her carcass on the floor hello linda hi nice to meet you
11:48would you like to describe your business plan for law sugar i currently own an asian convenience store
11:55and we had a small bubble tea kiosk within that so my aim is to open bubble tea shops so
12:01the bubble tea
12:02market it's definitely a heavily saturated market isn't it because it's been around since 1980
12:07there's already 1500 bubble tea stores across the uk i appreciate it's been around for a while but
12:15coffee shops have been around for a while and there's still emerging brands that do great
12:18don't compare bubble tea to a coffee chain you can't yeah so don't and then you go on your expansion
12:25program 320 stores in 10 years your biggest competitor mooboo they got 100 stores in 13 years
12:34so what gives you the confidence to think you can achieve more than established businesses well as
12:41you said you know there's 1500 bubble tea shops in the uk but you could probably only name you know
12:4610 that people really know why will profit be higher with you well i'm quite complete unknown you're not
12:51even saying i'm gonna do what the others are doing you're gonna beat the others i think it's wildly
12:56optimistic and i think it's not realistic oh amber rose tell us what happened how was it um that was
13:06worse than i could have ever imagined the most um she just thinks the bubble tea market is saturated
13:12and isn't viable for the amount of stores i want and i just solely disagree yeah yeah so i'm up
13:18next
13:19man how are you feeling save it mike i mean it's your time now this is my time it's your
13:25time to
13:25talk about ac dean i know wish me luck good luck smash it mate he's been so excited to talk
13:33about ac
13:34so he's looking forward to this pleasure to meet you mike take a seat thank you he hasn't expressed
13:40any nerves he's been the most confident yeah yeah i feel like it's blind optimism tell me about your
13:47current business so it's a future-proof company everybody is going to need air conditioning at
13:52some point and they need it now more than ever with the increase of climate control climate control
14:00climate control yeah the increase of climate control what does that mean so the climate that we're living
14:05um yeah climate zone is depleting the climate zone is depleting what does that mean so obviously
14:25now that we're getting longer summers we're getting longer summers yeah it's an actual fact is it yeah
14:31where from where are you getting your facts from it's just there it is it's a fact which season's
14:36getting shorter to get longer summers the the hottest day of the year gets hotter every year in fact
14:42and we also get longer summers so which season is getting shorter for summer to get longer so winter is
14:50getting shorter is it hmm so first of all can you just explain the business that you would like lord
14:58sugar to invest in please yeah so i've got a 3d animation studio and we specialize in product
15:05advertising so you know i run an ad agency yeah you said that one of the ways of getting new
15:11clients is
15:12via your marketing strategy which you detailed as pay for advertising networking events yeah and taking
15:20over piccadilly circus to showcase your capabilities yeah for 20 000 pounds a year do you know how much
15:28piccadilly circus is for one week i do not know around 250 000 pounds okay so yeah maybe piccadilly circus
15:37was a little ambitious for 20 000 pounds if you can do that i think i'd give you the investment
15:42myself
15:44so on your website it says our fully qualified engineers will always treat your home as if it
15:49were their own yeah and you stand by that stand by that do you remember posting this on social media
15:58so we was working in a sex shop and i thought it'd be quite funny clearly not it's a sex
16:05toy
16:05on an air conditioning unit and it's currently on your social media yep this doesn't say to me
16:12here's a trusted organization that's going to come into my home and treat it like their own
16:19and does it really feel like fun right now not not right now not right now all right thanks for
16:25your
16:25time thank you mike oh guys i've never been more embarrassed in my whole life oh my gosh you're
16:42looking a bit red what happened honestly he's just whipped out some photos of stuff that i've done
16:49on my social media what it was quite bad really really embarrassed about it they dig up all of
16:57your skeletons uh it's gonna be a long day looks like i'm next guys oh you've got this in the
17:04bag
17:05chisola let's see
17:09chisola is a warrior and she's dressed like a superhero today i think she's gonna go in there and smash
17:15it
17:15hi chisola hello do you want to describe your business plan to me yeah it's a matchmaking app for
17:26entrepreneurs and investors to connect for people to be able to secure investment you think there's a
17:32gap in the market for this business yeah absolutely i do think there is a gap in the market for
17:37it
17:37i think that is an absolute false statement there are numerous platforms such as angel list crunchbase
17:46linkedin app switch funds up silicone canals glass dollar i mean how can you come here for an
17:54investment and not be aware of all of this competition i did research some of the competition
18:00um i do think there are you missed all of these didn't you yeah however i don't believe everyone
18:05does what i do and especially the vetted but wait a minute yeah yeah i've done it yeah what i
18:10would
18:10like to do it's an idea you haven't done it you've got no experience of it at all okay thank
18:16you very
18:16much brutal
18:28how was it honestly i've come back traumatized were there any positives no i don't think i
18:34can even clutch on to any positives hello mike hi please take a seat your cv says that you are
18:44the
18:45winner of the apprentice 2025 congratulations is this confidence or is this arrogance i wouldn't say
18:53it's arrogance i definitely think it's important to be confident within yourself and stand out
18:58so you want to sell franchise licenses across the uk that's correct why would i pay to franchise
19:04something that has no track record what makes us different is the small things like our split cup
19:11i kind of want us to be the trailblazers when it comes to the split cup in the uk talk
19:16to me about
19:17these split cups then yeah so at the moment you know bubble tea just comes in one cup but a
19:21split cup
19:22would allow you to customize it into two separate drinks that's a split cup right there is that the
19:28kind of thing you're talking about absolutely yeah okay so you say this would be a trailblazing this
19:31would give you a real competitive advantage there's nobody else doing this at the moment
19:39well perhaps you can explain that then because this is not unique this is not original i'm not saying
19:45that we're the first in the uk there are bubble tea companies that use it so this is not advertising
19:50it
19:50the way that we are you've pitched your entire business plan on the basis that you're going to
19:55bring an innovation and what i'm here to tell you is it is not unique it is being done before
20:04well guys i'm off to chat with claude oh good luck yeah seriously good luck i'm gonna need it
20:11he's been chucked in at the deep end there jordan right this is a big one yeah yeah hopefully he
20:17can
20:18stand his ground one thing i know about jordan is he always rises to a challenge yeah good afternoon
20:25claude hi there jordan yeah right your business plan is 15 pages long and half of it is with rubbish
20:34um let's get on to some numbers okay you've got a few things in here sort of a few costs
20:40everything's
20:41cheap but you're not cheap because you charge a thousand pounds a day have you got paid work for a
20:46thousand pounds a day and i've had yeah two or three what you've portrayed here for me doesn't
20:52give me a hope in hell of going back to lord sugar and saying yep you know what i think
20:57you've got
20:58something with this guy because there's not enough there's not enough to go on look what we've done
21:02today is not massive but what i am doing is building my reputation in the industry i do believe
21:08that we're enough time we will be able to charge the rates of the big studios are playing but i
21:12am the
21:12little guy right now i'm happy for you to be the little guy because from small acorns whatever it
21:17is grows that's that's fine but you're not giving me that information there's not enough to go on
21:22thank you claude cheers
21:33jordo are you all right it's just frustrating i feel like like i'm a serious candidate you know
21:38i mean i'm here with proper business acumen yeah of course it's a bit deflating that you feel like
21:44damn am i really not good enough you know what i mean they're just like ah keep your chin up
21:48man
22:07you are one incredibly clever young woman you speak four languages is that right four or more
22:17incredible including japanese so um explain to me kind of as really such a high achiever someone who
22:24could literally get to the top of any i believe corporate career you want to go and concentrate
22:31on this pizza business yeah i think what it comes down to is being my own boss and having my
22:38own time
22:38and choosing what i want to do i see myself you know in a few years i do actually want
22:42to be a mother
22:43yeah so i think what's great about having your own business is one you control your finances you
22:48control your time and it would allow me to also see my future children and have that balance i think
22:54that's really really valid actually what are you going to do with lord sugar's investment i need a
23:01hub i need a showroom no don't need a showroom do you um i think it gives us the opportunity
23:07to upsell
23:07the products well we've got 250 000 quid haven't we to use yeah i wouldn't look to spend the whole
23:12amount what portion actually are you looking to spend probably half the rest would be a safety net
23:18safety net for what just in case in case what you don't know what's around the corner well lord
23:24sugar bloody one needs to know what's around the corner doesn't he because he's not going to be happy
23:28giving you 250 000 pounds on we don't know what's around the corner i need a safety net the money
23:34would be
23:34great but it is the mentorship that i'm actually needing what are you doing here if you need
23:39mentorship plenty of people who can give you mentorship you've got a nice little business
23:43you know you don't really need that investment okay okay look i'm going to tell you where i am with
23:50this i think the whole proposition is absurd but you're going to try and persuade me otherwise i am
23:56good you won't be able to but good luck if you want to have to try i think that you're
24:00trying to fix
24:01a problem that doesn't exist i've raised money i've been an investor and also i've gone through
24:07all the various gamuts of looking for people pitching what you want to do is you actually
24:12want to understand the individual you want to meet the person yeah it's an essential part of a
24:17transaction i think what's been key is the fact that people can't necessarily always find investors
24:22to go to so i think this way they're able to match with people who they can then pitch to
24:27you it's like dated apps so you know i've not gone on dating apps so i'm not experienced there
24:32no i i can but a dating app is swiping left or right or whatever it happens to be yeah
24:36that's not
24:37what this is about this is a serious business of trying to find an investor you're saying mm-hmm but
24:43i mean that doesn't come naturally to me i know it sounds ambitious but i do believe this is one
24:49thing it is so unrealistic as to be just nonsensical you look like you've been to war honestly talk to
24:59us tell us what happened right brutal i honestly don't think it could it can get any worse than
25:05what i just experienced yeah that's harsh yeah it's definitely been a tough day so far yeah i feel like
25:11this morning i was really excited but i've never been humbled and calm down look we all know these
25:17interviews aren't here to rub our egos you know they are here to to tear apart our business plans
25:23just gotta take the punches and keep moving
25:38hi claude hi there pleasure to meet you my god it's a pleasure take a seat
25:47i can see on your website you know even the fact you've only been around for eight months you've
25:52still worked with some of the biggest brands in the world i mean these are extraordinary how did
25:56you so not how did you win that business in terms of the portfolio work not all of them and
26:01it's
26:01stated you know some of them are so beats for example was a spec piece i'm sorry so what you're
26:05saying is the work that you've got on your website that wasn't for clients no some of it was and
26:11some
26:11of it wasn't so aston martin aston martin was not nike nike was not red bull red bull was not
26:18nowhere on your website does it explain that i think it's really misleading i did it to try and
26:24get the attention of the big brands um and show them that i'm just as good as anyone they've got
26:28in
26:28house you are pretending to the world that you've been paid to do this work and that the copyright
26:35holders are happy for you to do it i'll take that on board right you've got a business that is
26:42profitable yep good but you do know that this is a hopeless business plan don't you okay the first
26:48thing is that your balance sheet here for 2022 but then what you provide in your business plan
26:56is different to be fair it's stuff the accountants deal with do you look at that regularly no not
27:01really no so do you know what profit you're making i do seriously do you know your profit yeah last
27:07year
27:07was 74 okay this year was 161 it's around that figure yeah it was around that figure right so
27:15basically there's two of you you and your partner no no no no so there's uh we've got our wives
27:21on
27:21there as well right work for the company and they would relinquish their holding so their shares would
27:26be going to lord sugar so what's your plan where's it going so i want to get this to a
27:30stage where
27:31yeah yeah i'm advertising on tv no company's ever done it well well there's a good reason it costs
27:36a fortune because i don't know these things how can i expand yeah i just worry that that's what your
27:42sugar's going to need to kind of give him confidence to know that he's investing in somebody where
27:47there's a plan but your plan is a bit woeful really anisa what's so different about your pizzas
27:55my base is italian base with the sauce you can pick either the typical italian marinara sauce or we
28:00have our very own spicy masala sauce if it's only toppings that marks out the difference between you
28:06and your competitors is your product innovative enough then to cut through to a bigger market
28:12i think it is with the topping that recipe is unique is special and i know it tastes good
28:17i go to great lengths to ensure that my analysis for lord sugar is as detailed as possible
28:24good evening alan i've come to south london this evening i've ordered one of anisa's pizzas and i'm
28:32just waiting to pick it up i really hope it tastes good for her sake so it was a simple
28:40pickup but there
28:41were some serious problems firstly the order was late the chef had not realized that the order had
28:46come through i'm so sorry about that that's definitely not acceptable when it finally arrived i took the pizza
28:52outside and i tried it i would best describe it as delicious thank you it was a five-star pizza
29:04but you really need to think about product innovation because i think it's too easy to copy okay and i
29:10think the biggest place you can innovate is in terms of the base
29:15how did that go
29:20that was definitely interesting okay um he went down to my pizza place no and five staffed my pizza
29:29oh wow so he ended it well and i was so happy yeah wow all right guys i am off
29:35to see claude wish me luck
29:37good luck good luck i hope he's in a good mood for you me too right amber rose you've got
29:45this shop
29:46okay you were selling bubble tea but you stopped selling it why would you do that
29:53um we didn't want to dilute the business by having two things running at the same time it was making
29:59it hectic no it's nothing hectic about it you're selling groceries whatever it is and you're selling the
30:04bubble tea which is a winner well if there's a demand for something there's no logic in my mind
30:10why you would deprive yourself of the income and profit unless it's something that you know that i
30:16don't know i think more than anything to be completely blunt and put it simply it was more of a
30:20spacing
30:21issue within our shop but why get rid of bubble tea when there's a demand i mean it just it
30:26doesn't make
30:30sense not only are you a qualified nurse you're also a businesswoman an athlete figure skater yeah
30:38netball player yeah and you go traveling so my question to you is do you get bored easily um i
30:44wouldn't say i get bored easily but what i would say is that you know from my mum from a
30:49very young age
30:50she's been a hard worker and i think that's instilled in me quite a lot of values and
30:54qualities that i now have does she have a business as well so no my mum doesn't have a business
30:59but
31:00she is a director of care and she's worked her way up from the bottom she was a nurse in
31:05zambia she came
31:06here she started off working in a care home as you know a sister and has worked so hard and
31:11sacrificed
31:12so much um you're very close to her obviously yeah
31:22okay i think my mum's such a given person and i just want to be able to be half of
31:28the woman that
31:29she is that's lovely how's claudine she spoke about my mom and of course she got me
31:37she got me yeah she broke me guys it's always emotional for me i'm gonna get emotional now
31:48you can use your cape to wipe your tears thanks babe right i've got linda now wish me luck
31:55so i looked at your business plan and your predictions well it's a bit fresh air really
32:05isn't it i mean your growth plan 800 customers a month in year one going to 1280 in year two
32:14and
32:15then it just goes wildly on but it's all with three staff i think that's up in oversight i should
32:21be
32:21adding more stuff as the business grows and then you go on one million turnover by year five 762 000
32:29growth profit where just tell me where have these figures come from it's fresh air isn't it you don't
32:35really i would say you don't really know do you it's a projection i do believe in the product i
32:40believe it's a good idea you know look believing in the product is one thing i'm sitting here and
32:45i actually believe in the product but really and truthfully your current business plan isn't viable
32:50to me most of it i could rip up but i know that academically you're accomplished and capable so don't
32:56give twaddle and waffle and fresh air like this so you say that this business will draw on your
33:05experience with dating apps is that right yes that that is correct um how much experience do you have
33:11with dating apps um i you know i've used them uh i mean professionally how many of you managed how
33:18many
33:18of you run i haven't run any dating apps i haven't managed any dating apps um but what i have
33:23done is
33:23been a user on the other side i know but this is a formal business plan in which you say
33:27this will
33:28be based on my experience with dating apps the whole business idea is not solely based on me using
33:34the dating apps but it's what you said it's what you said in your business plan i'm not making it
33:38up
33:39and what stops entrepreneurs looking at the list of investors and just contacting them directly you
33:45wouldn't be able to see any matches without paying the subscription for the app okay but the
33:49investor doesn't have to pay the subscription do they yeah the investors do have to pay the
33:53subscription oh really yeah my concern is i don't know a single investor who would pay for that sort
34:00of service i've got to tell you something i think to get to the final five at 21 years old
34:08is quite impressive thank you very much i appreciate that i think your business plan's a bit of a car
34:13crash
34:13though looking at the work history there there's very little experience you're a self-taught 3d artist
34:20aren't you that's that's how this all started me as a as a self-taught freelancer you say
34:27you want to acquire top-tier talent for the least amount of money possible well obviously as little
34:32as possible yes i believe well so but it's a rubbish statement why would top-tier talent come to you
34:38an
34:38unknown i wouldn't say we're unknown oh please of course you're unknown you're eight months old
34:43salaries 3d junior animator 18 grand even a junior intern gets 26 000 a year you need to go away
34:52and rewrite a better business plan because this business plan is a car crash thank you very much
34:59and uh been a pleasure has it it has thank you it's quite interesting because reading your application
35:09form i couldn't really get a sense of you you know you were asked what makes you different from the
35:14other candidates you put i can sell air conditioning right not really the kind of thing that i would
35:23expect yeah what's the most interesting thing about you you said my wife and two kids yeah i mean
35:31they're my world they're everything to me so they are the most interesting thing about me i'm so proud
35:37of every single one of them and it's i'm just trying to yeah i'm just trying to make them proud
35:42of me
35:43i mean how's it been being away from them for this time very hard yeah it's been one of the
35:48hardest
35:49things i've ever had to do i've never been away from them is that what you're doing this for is
35:53for them for your family yeah i mean i'm here to secure my future and their future i want to
36:00give
36:00them a business that's running for them or they can get involved with so yeah it's all about them
36:10how was it oh she got me yeah yeah it's just a really nice conversation you know yeah i think
36:17all
36:18of us are just so happy that it's over now yeah roll on the boardroom tomorrow i guess may the
36:24best
36:25business win yeah well done everyone
37:01good morning good morning well thanks uh once again for helping me out in this the 19th uh year
37:12of the apprentice claude you you've actually been in every single one yeah amazing tim you were the
37:20winner of the first i survived the letter through claude himself yeah you did you survived you got a
37:26survival badge i survived called um right well let's start with anisa claudine um her business is doing a
37:38fusion of italian and indian pizzas mike you actually tried one of these things is that right
37:45i ordered it online and it was fantastic genuinely five star pizza and so i think this is a really
37:54distinctive offering i've never tasted pizza like this before just giving me a good idea there i could
37:59branch out with a chow mein bagel how about that claude no um linda she is a smart accomplished woman
38:10and i think if she focuses on the dark kitchen then she could do very well claude did you do
38:17a dive into
38:18her business model yeah well it's hard to really get to the bottom of it because i'm spiced up the
38:23numbers
38:23also she she may she may well have done the problem is that it's a pizza and you've got some
38:29established
38:29market leaders and it wouldn't take too much if there was a demand for that kind of topping
38:34for people to copy her right i think if you're to pursue this then further innovation is really
38:40important but i think on a product as good as that you can build a business okay good well let's
38:47move on
38:47so we'll talk about jordan jordan has started a 3d animation studio he would like your investment
38:55to grow the team and to grow his reach to turn this into something where he can actually deal with
39:02really big global brands well he is making a success he's already working with these big brands
39:06see that's not accurate what jordan has done and they're across his website and on his social media
39:12is he has borrowed if you like big brands and he's used those brands and he's created
39:19some really quite impressive looking work so he's done the work for the big brands without them asking
39:25for the work and without them paying for the work yes oh that's very different he's self-taught
39:30he taught himself from youtube he is a trier i have to say that i mean he's got aspirations to
39:37have
39:37a billboard in piccadilly circus yeah i said to him if you can get piccadilly circus for 20 grand i'll
39:42give you the investment myself ultimately it's about 250 000 pounds for a week so that was very
39:49naive yeah yeah the one thing i would say about jordan is i think he has come on the most
39:56through
39:56this process yeah in my opinion he is an amazing young man but he's finding his way this may be
40:05the
40:05thing that is his thing or it might not hmm i've got to decide if it's looney tunes right now
40:14we've got
40:14amber rose her cv at the very top of it says winner of the apprentice 2025 really that's the headline
40:22at the top of her cv hmm what exactly is this bubble tea it's a kind of tapioca sugary drink
40:29oh it's been very very popular there are currently 1500 stores selling bubble tea across the uk really
40:38um yeah she had a usp within her business plan and the usp was to create a drink which has
40:45two sides to
40:46it as i was able to show her however it's not unique i found one of these double cups from
40:52a different
40:52store so what she imagined when you drink a double cup if you put it to your lips like that
40:58does it flow
40:58out the other side i wanted you have a straw well you need you need you need two straws one
41:03one each
41:03side okay but amber rose is presently running an asian convenience store and now she wants to open
41:10standalone bubble tea stores and then a franchise she's got this idea that she's going to dominate
41:17the bubble tea market although it's been established for many years so she's late to the market um and
41:23i'm not sure there's that much growth in the market as we stand here at the moment okay let's talk
41:28about
41:29dean now him and a mate owns this business but in fact it's further split yeah between their wives yeah
41:37right and if i was to have my 50 i'd be getting the wives shareholdings yeah that's right so um
41:45dean has
41:45a fast-growing air conditioning installation and servicing company in essex and what he wants is he
41:51wants your investment to fuel expansion if you look at his business he's doing all right he made 74 000
41:57he hopes to make 116 000 this year so it is a sort of growing business in a market which
42:03has growth to
42:03it so from that point of view it's safe whether he's an entrepreneurial being i wasn't able to to really
42:09test yeah i saw his business plan it wasn't very big was it it was slimmer than uh the collected
42:16wisdom
42:16of piers morgan i think yeah um if you if you lay it near the air conditioner will blow it
42:23away
42:23i wonder who wrote it claude i think he probably wrote it because it's rubbish when i uh question him
42:29he doesn't actually need your investment because that's right he doesn't but he's very keen to have you
42:35mentoring him alan he definitely is he is absolutely desperate to make a success for his family and he
42:43is doing it all for them so um that's lovely yeah all right let's move on to chisola she wants
42:49to
42:49create an app to connect investors to entrepreneurs is that right yeah claudian has she got any experience
42:57in the app world no no none no so she's just like jumped out of bed one monday morning and
43:03said
43:03i'm going to have an app that's going to bring entrepreneurs and investors together and she
43:07hasn't really thought through the mechanics of how it would work even to the point where she's saying
43:12well it wouldn't just be entrepreneurs that would pay to subscribe to the platform it would also be
43:18investors and the investor would be willing to be ridiculous sounds like she's basing it on a dating app
43:22you get as many women on for free so the men pay yes i think that's it's true that's how
43:30it works i
43:30wouldn't know i think that's what she's confused her whole new businesses she thinks it's like as
43:37simple as a dating app okay it's very very much more complicated that's a shame because she's a very
43:44nice lady very nice and bright no question of it but i i'm disappointed in in that's what she wants
43:52to
43:52do but um yeah well once again thank you very much for your assistance very kind of you so i'll
44:00see you
44:01soon okay could you send the five candidates in peace
44:22yesterday tough day for you yeah but this is a serious business and i put my trusted advisors to
44:34have a deep dive into you personally and into your business plans yeah jordan yeah you've grown a lot
44:42in this process pinocchio has finally become a boy um now most of the work on your website was unpaid
44:50i believe right you you've just taken the brand they haven't actually come along and said to you do
44:56something have they so there's a mix of work that i've been commissioned to do and a mix of just
45:01work
45:01for my portfolio run me through what you've been commissioned to do then um so crafted london our
45:06our most recent one and they're one of the biggest jewelry brands on shopify um i've done cash beauty
45:12back home one of the biggest beauty brands um well they paid you to do that correct yes so what
45:17has
45:18your turnover been so far um today it's just north of 20 000 pounds and how long you've been at
45:25that so
45:25eight months technically is when i started learning 3d i am i am only young i'm not going to claim
45:30to be
45:31one of the big dogs in this industry industry because i'm not right well not much of a business
45:37here at the moment i'll be honest lord sugar there isn't look i'm not trying to you know waste your
45:43time here i understand what you're saying i understand what you're saying and this is really
45:47an embryonic stage isn't it really yeah um right now then um at the other end of the table chisola
45:54yes um now you're looking for investment in this app to introduce entrepreneurs to investors
46:02yes that's correct you've got no experience in apps have you no i don't i do recognize that it is
46:08a new industry that i would be wanting to go into i know obviously speaking to your advisors yesterday
46:14there are a few holes in my business plan and i can you know recognize that but i still truly
46:19believe
46:20that it is a viable business i mean it is like a dating app isn't it yeah it's a it
46:24is a matchmaking
46:25app and it definitely comes off the premise of dating apps in terms of being able to swipe
46:30but i wanted to simplify the process and you know try and bridge a gap for people to be able
46:35to connect
46:36yeah not so much tinder more like spender really yeah and you know i've always had a policy that says
46:43people shouldn't go into business unless they have some kind of experience in the field have you
46:50spoken to any entrepreneurs to ask if they would go on put their business on this app yeah so i've
46:55spoken to over 70 business owners and they would put their ideas onto an app i haven't spoken to if
47:02it
47:02was free they would yeah i think and no even even paid for yeah okay now then dean yes no
47:10sugar air
47:11conditioning yep your turnover is what half a million so the net profit is 171 and i now realize
47:19that you've got a partner alex is that right that's correct so listen blunt question are you the del
47:26boy or rodney i'm the del boy you are i run the business it's mine and i've built up a
47:33very good
47:33reputation in what i do hopefully next year you'll be millionaires i think we will so i understand the
47:41shareholding is broken down between you and alex but your wives respectively have got 25 percent
47:48each yeah so they'll give it to me and then uh they won't get the hump over that then will
47:53they
47:53no they won't make you sleep in the spare bedroom you have told them about your plan have they know
47:59the
47:59plan um we're still married so what's mine is hers so yeah it makes no difference right okay what's your
48:06name of your business a it's adl oh alex got his name in first there yeah it's just it just
48:12sounded
48:12better we left the l for you lord sugar yeah practiced that one didn't you right okay now then amber
48:21rose
48:21so you had the bubble tea rack inside your yeah convenience store then you expanded your convenience
48:29store and you disbanded the bubble tea yeah and now you're asking me to invest in bubble tea when
48:37you're not investing in it yourself yeah i i understand how it looks it wasn't due to the fact
48:43that bubble tea wasn't working um it was quite the opposite ironically it was working so well you closed
48:49it down i i felt that the natural next step for our business would be to open another bubble tea
48:54shop
48:54within croydon as we already have an existing customer base and we would be able to have one store that
48:58just
48:58focused on that solely um how much was you turning over in bubble tea when you had it in the
49:03store
49:03unfortunately i don't have that figure which is yeah which is not good okay all right now um anisa
49:11yes sugar pizzas with a kind of an indian topping so to speak yes i'm running as a dark kitchen
49:18within
49:18my father's indian restaurant right what are you going to do in my 250 000 pounds so with the investment
49:24i would like to spend the first 150 000 pounds on our first brick and mortar store but the long
49:30-term
49:30plan is to expand through dark it's expensive to open a store i think i think it would burn all
49:35that
49:35money up near enough straight away i mean having a standalone store is great for marketing and for
49:40consumers to have somewhere fiscal that they can go to i don't think it's a good idea opening a store
49:45i really don't so wasting my money um well ladies and gentlemen as you know there's only going to be
49:53two of you going through to the grand final um
49:58um i'm going to be pretty blunt about this um amber rose i got no confidence whatsoever in this um
50:15bubble tea business so it is regretful when i say that um although you've been a great participant
50:24in this process as far as an investment is concerned i don't think you're the one for me so amber
50:32rose
50:32you're fired thank you very much for the opportunity lord sugar brian is brilliant good luck thank you very much
50:51i don't get it myself i really don't get it there's so many people that have
50:58tried to do what you're talking about yeah uh i've got a lot of admiration for
51:04uh the manner in which you've conducted yourself in this process but as far as an investment is
51:10concerned uh i'm afraid not so chisola it is with regret that you're fired thank you honestly it's
51:18been an incredible opportunity thank you will sugar thank you very much radio yeah good luck
51:23thank you um look step outside the three of you i'm going to consult with baroness brady and tim and
51:37then i'll call you back in and i'll let you know which two of you are going into the grand
51:41final
51:41okay thank you thank you so what do you think about anisa it's clear anisa has a unique idea she's
51:55bringing to the table but i think if she listens to your advice and focuses more on the dark kitchen
52:00i think there's huge scalability there hmm what do you think about jordan i mean it's a great bloke he's
52:06done very well in the process i mean this is a tiny business it's really no more than an idea
52:11but he's
52:12certainly an investable person and i gotta say i quite like him let's talk about dean now it sounds
52:18like dean's got a great business it's making money but then that begs the question what is he here for
52:23because he doesn't really need the money from you it's the advice and guidance from you as a mentor he's
52:28looking for well i'm going to bring them back in and then i'm going to decide which two are going
52:33to be
52:33in the final yeah could you send the three of them in please
52:49so jordan a seed of an idea jordan nothing wrong in that a lot of businesses started from a seed
52:56of an
52:57idea and i have to think about whether i agree with your seed of an idea and whether i want
53:03to invest
53:03in it at the beginning of this process you said you're looking for someone with that entrepreneurial
53:08spirit i've got it running through my veins sometimes you need someone to take a risk on
53:12you it is a risk but it's a risk we're taking yeah i'm wondering um anisa your existing business is
53:21small
53:23there's a lot to do if i was to invest with you i would want to focus on an array
53:29of dark kitchens
53:30things strategically placed in captured zones which you don't cover at the moment yeah i'm happy to do
53:36that my current base can be a central kitchen and from that we can deliver to the other dark kitchens
53:41in the area yeah i do think it's very plausible and i'm happy to go forward with that um dean
53:46you're
53:47already making money but you need to drum up a load more business i mean you're not overloaded at the
53:53moment are you we are literally bursting at the seams at the minute but you can't deal with the
53:58inquiries so i have to sub them out i'm not sure whether a showroom is necessary basically if i was
54:05to get an office i would have a room off of that office where customers can come down and have
54:09a
54:09look at the units because people don't know what they're buying well how do you do at the moment
54:13how do you do at the moment yeah i show them brochures um i've got an app that you take
54:18a photo and you
54:20shows you what it looks like yeah i think so in this day and age of apps and yeah and
54:24videos and
54:25all that stuff um right look i'm going to make a decision now it is a very very difficult um
54:32situation
54:33for me i've got you jordan that has really got nothing at the moment other than the dream and i've
54:41got these two that's got an existing business that's making money so i can see some light at the
54:47end of the tunnel and for that reason i'm struggling um very difficult very very difficult
54:57um look i've got a problem with someone like you jordan starting from scratch i mean everybody's got
55:03to start from somewhere with an idea and so you know what jordan here's what i've got to say to
55:08you
55:08i'm very impressed in the manner in which you have worked your way through this process um but my gut
55:17feeling is telling me that you're here too early mate that's the problem you're here too early and so
55:26i'm going to say to you this and i don't do this with many people this is my contacts
55:35i wish you very very well and i want you to work very very hard and i want you to
55:41get in touch with
55:42me when you feel that you've moved to the next level but it is regretful that you're fired thank you
55:51so
55:51much for that lord sugar that that means the world that's a genuine offer thank you very much and i
55:56will
55:56be in touch it's been a pleasure not first thing in the morning though appreciate it
56:07anisa and dean congratulations you are in the grand final you've still got a lot of work ahead
56:13of you to convince me who's going to be my business partner whatever comes of this you could put air
56:19conditioning in their dark kitchens and you can supply pizzas to his workers on his van good trade
56:27it's a good trade well good luck and well done and um off you go back to the house thank
56:32you very
56:33much thank you well done
56:41how long will it take jordan to ring you i bet he's going to call you in two minutes
56:47i feel like i came into this process a boy and i'm leaving a man lord sugar gave me his
56:52contact
56:52details and said reach out so excited for what the future holds
56:57we're in the final well done anisa honestly this is something i've always dreamed of air conditioning
57:04versus yeah may the best person win i had the best person win good luck good luck now two candidates
57:13remain the search for lord sugar's next business partner is almost over
57:21next time for your final task i want you to launch your businesses action the finalists it's so
57:29hot you need instant cooling go head to head think of any of the top curries i put on a
57:35pizza but
57:35only one can win i am daddy cool you're going to be my business partner
57:43so
57:54so
57:55so
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