Carlos Vigil — CEO | PLATFORM BUILDER | OPERATING PARTNER
CEO | PLATFORM BUILDER | OPERATING PARTNER
Carlos Vigil ranks #612 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Wine & Spirits, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 8.4K followers and published 52 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.2% average engagement rate.
- 8.4K followers
- 52 posts / 30d
- 0.2% avg engagement
- 342 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Carlos claims to be an operating partner at Lobos 1707, but with an engagement rate lower than the average DUI arrest record, the only thing he’s successfully scaling is his own irrelevance. He spends his days listing billion-dollar P&Ls on a profile fewer people check than his high school transcript.
About Carlos
Exited Investments | Growth Equity | Control PE | FMCG & Business Services | Platform Build | Board & Sponsor PartnerTransformational CEO with a proven record of scaling founder-led and PE-backed businesses into exit-ready platforms. Deep experience across growth equity and control buyouts, with particular strength in commercial acceleration, operating model redesign, leadership upgrades, and disciplined execution.Track record includes leading a PE-backed CPG business to a 5.5x revenue multiple exit, running $3.7B+ P&Ls, and delivering $325M+ in EBITDA improvement through growth, margin expansion, and operating leverage. Trusted partner to boards and sponsors, capable of stepping in as CEO or supporting portfolio leadership as an Operating Partner when appropriate.Early career in M&A and capital structuring (JD), enabling strong deal fluency and board-level rigor.Now targeting CEO or President roles in PE-backed or founder-led businesses where the mandate is commercial acceleration and platform build.
Highlights
- Consistent Creator — 35 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Top 5% in Wine & Spirits — Ranked #1 of 34 creators
- Top 25% in United States — Ranked #595 of 5940 creators
- Big Audience — 8,389 followers · top 25%
Recent posts
$28 vinegar. Nobody laughed. Three years ago, the category Acid League (founded by Cole Pearsall and Allan Mai) sells into didn't exist. No shelf. No buyer. No demand. Today it sits in Whole Foods Market at full premium pricing. They didn't get there by lowering the price until people said yes. They built it in one specific order, and the order is the whole lesson: 1) Chefs first. Free product into the kitchens that get written about. Not influencers. Cooks whose names appear in Bon Appétit and Eater. 2) Food editors second. Once the product was in three notable kitchens, the story wro
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Your Hispanic media spend is funding someone else's conversion. You targeted them correctly. The awareness worked. Then they went to buy and it broke. Here's what most CPG brands miss: Hispanic households move through channels at a different velocity than the general market. Faster on some. Slower on others. And the path from "I saw the ad" to "I bought it" runs through retailers, formats, and moments your planogram was never built for. So the awareness lands. The purchase happens at a competitor. Here's how to actually close the last-mile gap: 1) Map the real shelf, not the national on
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