Suresh Muthulingam

Thank you, David.

Glad to be here.

Yeah, so the main issue really in the movie industry or with teams which have similar characteristics is that after you complete the project or you complete the movie, there is a gap between the time you finish the movie and the time you get to know about the results.

So what happens is the team gets disbanded after the movie is done.

And they have moved on.

So there is no clear way for them to analyze what went right or what went wrong.

So when, especially in the context of a failure, you don't know what things didn't work out.

So that's number one.

The second issue is when you're working with teams and if there is a failure, failure is sort of hard to kick it.

When things don't go well, you're not like really confident.

very happy.

You feel like, oh, maybe I did a good job, but maybe someone else didn't do such a good job.

So you tend to rationalize failure away, that probably things didn't work out because there were some other team member who didn't pull their weight.

And plus, this is an industry where people are worried about their image and overall appearance and how they appear to the industry.

So they sort of rationalize away failure.

So that is the second thing.

And the third thing is...

After a movie succeeds or fails, there is no clear systematic review of what happened.

So in the absence of such a feedback, you don't tend to learn from failure.

And the point is, even in an industry like Silicon Valley, if you fail, but if the teams keep changing frequently, failure will not really help you.