Apprentice winner Mark Wright has sold the business he set up with Lord Alan Sugar for around £10 million.
The 2014 winner took home a £250,000 partnership with the business guru thanks to a hit performance on the show and certainly proved a success in the years that followed.
The duo founded digital marketing agency Climb Online and went on to have a team of 130 staff. The firm worked with huge names in the business world, including Emirates and TikTok, and was sold to agency xDNA.
Lord Sugar praised the businessman, who he said came over to the UK with "no money" from Australia and can now return with millions in the bank.
The Sun reports Lord Sugar said of his now former business partner: "A young boy comes from Australia, skint, totally skint.
"He sees an advert on BBC to enter into The Apprentice programme. He then goes on and wins it. And he wins a partnership with me of £250,000. And from acorns, big oak trees have grown.
"And this young lad who came with no money is now going back to Australia with millions."
Mark described how the show hugely helped get his foot in the door with some big players in the business world. He revealed how prior to the show he was getting turned away by small shops, but his involvement in the show opened up the opportunity to speak to top business boards.
"Before I went on the show, if I rang up a carpet shop in South London they wouldn't give me the time of day," he said.
As soon as I won that programme I could get a meeting in the boardroom at Emirates. That brand was incredibly powerful."
However, he recognises how growing the business still took a lot of time and effort, saying a key factor in its success was its ability to keep language simple.
He continued: "What really made my company stick out was the fact that we were results-driven and kept the language simple."
He explained how they'd get straight to the point in meetings, telling people what they'd receive for their outlay instead of dazzling them with technical jargon.
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