{"id":4233,"date":"2014-01-20T23:29:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2014-01-20T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:30:13","slug":"another-great-sundance-day-focused-on-the-success-the-comes-from-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/another-great-sundance-day-focused-on-the-success-the-comes-from-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Great Sundance Day Focused on the Success the comes from Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was another great day at the Sundance Film Festival.\u00a0 It is really fun to have so many people come together from all around the world to gather in Park City to celebrate storytelling.\u00a0 Another great part of Sundance Film Festival is the business gatherings that take place where business leaders can gather together and network with people who have come in to attend the festival.\u00a0 It is a fantastic way to meet people from different areas that you would not typically come across otherwise.\u00a0 And Zion\u2019s Bank, a huge supporter of businesses and charitable causes, led by Scott Anderson \u2013 one of the nicest, most generous, most humble men you will ever have the privilege to meet, always hosts an amazing business and technology event during Sundance to facilitate bringing these business leaders together.\u00a0 Today was that event and I was humbled when I was asked to be a speaker on the panel today at the event.\u00a0 I spoke alongside John Warnock, founder of Adobe Systems, and Priyanka Bakaya, CEO of PK Clean.\u00a0 Our panel was moderated by actor Kevin Rahm, star of shows such as Mad Men and Desperate Housewives.\u00a0 Kevin is absolutely darling!\u00a0 He is completely genuine and extremely witty and he did an amazing job of speaking and then moderating our panel.\u00a0 The panel was focused on what we learn from failures in business and how our failures led us to our greatest successes.\u00a0 John Warnock shared some great stories of how following his gut on the creation of acrobat, despite pushback from his board in doing so, led his company to its highest revenue generating product to date.\u00a0 Priyanka shared how her company tried to put their production offshore and the struggles they went through in doing so that ultimately caused them to cut their losses and bring the business back to the states.\u00a0 I was asked to talk about how we encouraged failure in order to learn in my company.\u00a0 I shared that we put a rule in place that allowed any of us to fail at everything once \u2013 so long as we didn\u2019t repeat that same mistake again \u2013 so if we tried and failed at something then we had a pact that each of us would have each other\u2019s back to help them fix their mistake \u2013 the first time they made it.\u00a0 Then if they made that same mistake again they were on their own to face the consequence.\u00a0 They could make any different mistake and we all had each other\u2019s back again so long as they didn\u2019t make that same one again, and so on.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was really fun to hear from the other panelists \u2013 I love to learn from the experience of others!\u00a0 The event ended with a talk by Governor Gary Herbert and a wrap up from Scott Anderson.\u00a0 All in all it was a great event and I enjoyed visiting with everyone.<\/p>\n

One of the coolest parts of my day was being able to take my daughter and one of her friends along with me as they were out of school for Martin Luther King Day today.\u00a0 After leaving the event I was able to take her to a premier party where she was able to meet Anne Hathaway and get her photo with her.\u00a0 She was so excited about meeting Anne as she is a huge fan ever since Anne did the Princess Diaries movies.\u00a0 So helping her get her photo with Anne officially made me \u201ccool\u201d for a few minutes with my baby girl\u2026not an easy thing to achieve with your teenager, so that felt great!<\/p>\n

To close I will share a few fun photos from today:<\/p>\n

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Kamiel Sumsion, Anne Hathaway, Ashley Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n

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Amy Rees Anderson and Kevin Rahm<\/p><\/div>\n

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Panel with Kevin Rahm, John Warnock, Priyanka Bakaya, and Amy Rees Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n

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Amy Rees Anderson and Scott Anderson of Zions Bank<\/p><\/div>\n

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Utah Governor Gary Herbert and Amy Rees Anderson<\/p><\/div>\n


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Today was another great day at the Sundance Film Festival.\u00a0 It is really fun to have so many people come together from all around the world to gather in Park City to celebrate storytelling.\u00a0 Another great part of Sundance Film Festival is the business gatherings that take place where business leaders can gather together and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3247,3213,3246,3256,536,3251,41,67,2564,171,218,3217,1340,331,394,3212,3250,3252,3255,1345,1877,593,3253,406,3249,1341,3257,3248,3244,1541,3254,3243,466,465,1649,196,3245],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acrobat","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-systems","tag-anne-hathaway","tag-business","tag-desperate-housewives","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-event","tag-fail","tag-failure","tag-film","tag-gary-herbert","tag-governor","tag-governor-herbert","tag-john-warnock","tag-kevin-rahm","tag-mad-men","tag-matin-luther-king","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-networking","tag-panel","tag-photos","tag-pk-clean","tag-premier","tag-princess-diaries","tag-priyanka-bakaya","tag-scott-anderson","tag-speak","tag-speaking","tag-storytelling","tag-sundance","tag-sundance-film-festival","tag-television","tag-utah","tag-zions-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}