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title: "James Watt: The World’s Most Controversial Boss?!"
description: "James Watt: The World’s Most Controversial Boss?!, on Secret Leaders. 11,882 views."
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updated: 2026-10-25
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# James Watt: The World’s Most Controversial Boss?!

- Channel: Secret Leaders
- Made for: Secret Leaders
- Published: 2024-11-19
- Views: 11,882 (production tracker)
- Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796Gzzm75z0
- Form: long, 1:20:29

If you are comfortable, you need to push more and like for the first 6 years, I was delighted when we'd enough money to pay the staff at the end of each month and we was almost never able to pay ourselves.

## What did Tom do on this video?

- **Produced.** Tom owned the production of the video itself, or the format it belongs to, end to end. Commissioning, shoot, edit, packaging and release.
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- **Commercial and sponsorship.** Tom brought in, negotiated or ran the commercial deal that paid for the video or that appears inside it.

**Secret Leaders.** Head of Content. Owned the format relaunch and editorial strategy, the studio build, the sponsorship revenue, and the team and systems.

Era: Head of Content, Secret Leaders, Jul 2024 to May 2025.