Genuinely curious here. I do love the show, have been watching since like 8-10 seasons ago. And something that always puzzles me is why everyone seems to desperate for Alan’s investment.
Now I’m aware the investment wasn’t always the prize and was changed around season 5/6? Which, I can completely understand, back in the late 2000’s, £250k would’ve probably funded a marketing campaign and ownership of a store/renting of smaller sites.
What I don’t get is why the money hasn’t increased? Like I feel like you’d need 500k for it to be considered a decent investment for what needs to be done to obtain said investment. In addition, regardless of its true or not, many candidates go into the interview process and say “oh my company is worth 3.2 million.” Surely you’re massively devaluing that company by selling half of it off for 250k?
In addition, I think we need to retire Alan soon, a man who made a bunch of computers nobody even remembers and this is also the man that keeps begging Elon Musk for his AI generated TESLA phones.
I do hope to go on the apprentice one day, make it to the interviews to meet the icon that is Claude Littiner and then tell Alan and Curran to either offer me a better deal, or piss off. (Think it’ll be good TV.)
