The Shrimp Tank Podcast - The Best Entrepreneur Podcast In The Country
Sep 25, 2026 · 47 min · 12 segments
Peter Iglesias is a seasoned CPG executive and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of industry experience in the wine and spirits industry. Celebrated for innovative, agile leadership, he has guided…
Okay.
The next question is, would you rather know exactly what consumers want next year or exactly what competitors are planning? Maybe we can make this related to like the tech industry.
Because consumer awareness and the desire to buy a product or services, that's the key to your success.
Yeah, I'm going to piggyback that, of course.
If I knew what direction on my mobile app, what features to build, the amount of money I could save if I really understood the feedback.
But it's important to know that sometimes the feedback is not realistic.
People say what they want, but in the future, then you build it, they then gloss over it, and you're stuck spending a lot of money.
But if I really knew what they really, truly wanted, it would be extremely helpful, of course, in my business.
I would rather know what my competitors are doing because I think a lot of the time people don't actually know what they want.
And there's been a lot of revolutionary change where people think they know what they want, like with the Google Glasses.
And Apple was able to overdevelop and be able to take that technology way further.
I think that if you know what your competitors are doing, you're able to trap them and trademark the technology that you would be making.
So they're only stuck in that small space where then along with what your competitors are doing, they would need your technology as well.
Okay.
The next question is, would you rather know exactly what consumers want next year or exactly what competitors are planning? Maybe we can make this related to like the tech industry.
Because consumer awareness and the desire to buy a product or services, that's the key to your success.
Yeah, I'm going to piggyback that, of course.
If I knew what direction on my mobile app, what features to build, the amount of money I could save if I really understood the feedback.
But it's important to know that sometimes the feedback is not realistic.
People say what they want, but in the future, then you build it, they then gloss over it, and you're stuck spending a lot of money.
But if I really knew what they really, truly wanted, it would be extremely helpful, of course, in my business.
I would rather know what my competitors are doing because I think a lot of the time people don't actually know what they want.
And there's been a lot of revolutionary change where people think they know what they want, like with the Google Glasses.
And Apple was able to overdevelop and be able to take that technology way further.
I think that if you know what your competitors are doing, you're able to trap them and trademark the technology that you would be making.
So they're only stuck in that small space where then along with what your competitors are doing, they would need your technology as well.
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