150: Greg Larkin - "This Might Get Me Fired"
Greg Larkin\u200b began his entrepreneurial life in 2006 when he nearly got fired from an investment start-up, Innovest, for publicly predicting that the booming housing market would collapse. (He wasn't, and it did).
As his prediction came true, Innovest\u2019s sales skyrocketed, leading to a $16 million acquisition in 2009. After the buy-out Greg made the tough transition from startup entrepreneur to corporate intrapreneur, learning how to move fast in companies that are often slow, cautious, and hierarchical.
Since then, he has built more than thirty products for companies like Google, PWC, Nestle and Bloomberg. He is the founder of Bowery315, a product consultancy which launches new products for huge companies in eight weeks. He is also the Director of Innovation for Spring Design Partners.
His new, best-selling book \u201cThis Might Get Me Fired\u201d offers an insider perspective on how to thrive as an entrepreneur in a company that\u2019s more afraid of change than extinction. The book has been called \u201cbold,\u201d \u201cpractical,\u201d \u201ccourageous,\u201d and \u201cprovocative.\u201d He grew up in Queens, New York in the \u201880s and still gets nostalgic for when NYC was dangerous and filthy.
Today he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two kids AND he's Thrives LOUD with Lou Diamond in this fun episode.
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