Grow Your Network: Greg Larkin Is A Second Mountain Guide
December 11, 2025·0 comments·zg
Do you know Greg Larkin? He’s the author of This Might Get Me Fired: A Manual for Thriving in the Corporate Entrepreneurial Underground, and numerous posts that chart the intersection of corporate culture, innovation, and the human experience. He's the founder of Punks and Pinstripes - a community built specifically for executives who've achieved success on their first mountain and are now climbing a second one.
If not, allow me to introduce you. Greg has spent decades in the trenches of major institutions - from hedge funds to Bloomberg to consulting gigs at PWC, Google, and Uber - understanding exactly how innovation survives (or dies) inside corporate walls. His work is grounded in a hard-won understanding of what it actually takes to get things done when the stakes are high and the resistance is fierce.
I wanted to connect with Greg because he embodies something I value deeply: the courage to name what's actually happening - in boardrooms, in markets, and in our own lives - and then do something about it.
Our conversation is LIVE now on the Epsilon Theory YouTube channel (and this Cultish Creative Playlist). Listen and you'll hear stories that span from New York City immigrant parents to hardcore punk shows to the "f*** you pay me" meeting that changed everything - plus his framework for understanding the five types of obstruction you'll encounter when trying to innovate inside institutions.
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