From Failure to Fortune
- Ally Cassidy
- Feb 17, 2018
- 2 min read
Everyone has been so excited for panels this week and Rooster Teeth’s was no exception. This was evident when people started lining up at seven in the morning, with the event becoming totally booked by ten, an hour before it was even supposed to start.
Rooster Teeth is an extremely known production based company that strives in the entertainment industry and has contributed animation such as Red vs Blue and RWBY, as well as more social productions like podcasts. Gus Sorola, co-founder of Rooster Teeth, is a light hearted comedic personality that is really easy to connect with due to his down-to-earth advice and admission of failure. During his panel “Turning Failure into Success,” he spoke mainly of how Rooster Teeth came together from his own non fulfillment and inability to perfect any skill.
"'You can change fate in your favor,' Gus replies honestly, answering someone’s question about avoiding failure."
He continues with “Just hire someone who can do it,” and receives plenty of laughs from the audience. However, this is exactly what he did. He spoke of wanting to work in events and after realizing he didn’t quite belong there, he hired someone who he knew would be great at it. The same happened with broadcasts and I.T. He continued to hire people and watched his company grow.
Even through the negatives Gus spoke of, he was extremely insightful. He started at the beginning of his career as he struggled to figure out what he really wanted to do in his life. He went from dropping out of college and contemplating sleeping on the street to finding people he connected to and wanted to start a company with. I found myself connecting to everything he said on such a personal level, and the atmosphere of the room was so inspirational and made me want to just get up and start creating.
Gus reminded us that around 25 people who work at RT are alumni from the one and only, Full Sail. This is a huge success for both RT and Full Sail and allows current students who enjoy RT to strive towards maybe working there someday, with the possibility of making a connection based off of a shared history.
Success is everything we do is something we hope for, but we are still going to fail ten times over before reaching what we believe to be a point of true triumph. Gus reminded many of us that failure is not a bad thing and can be used to really thrive. What failure in your life has ultimately lead to a much bigger success?
In the photo (right to left): Chad James (from RT’s Screw Attack), Alfredo Diaz (from RT’s Achievement Hunter), Gus Sorola (co-founder of RT), and Brian Reilly (producer at RT)
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