The analogy doesn't completely work. If the data shows your hypothesis is false, or doesn't support its truth then it doesn't matter if you're the best experimenter in your field nor if you worked most competently the world is what it is (barring poor experiment design!).
An hypothesis isn't a product, falsifying your hypothesis is success - you've increased the pool of human knowledge (or increased the support for an element of it).
In business good and bad products can both lead to profit and can both lead to losses. Profit and loss can both be considered success and failure.
On your last sentence - I don't think it's as self-evident as it seems. We tend to like the successes that profit us but in general I'm not sure we humans are that congratulatory of other's success. Schadenfreude seems very popular.
An hypothesis isn't a product, falsifying your hypothesis is success - you've increased the pool of human knowledge (or increased the support for an element of it).
In business good and bad products can both lead to profit and can both lead to losses. Profit and loss can both be considered success and failure.
On your last sentence - I don't think it's as self-evident as it seems. We tend to like the successes that profit us but in general I'm not sure we humans are that congratulatory of other's success. Schadenfreude seems very popular.