Logan Merrick — Headhunting top 1% Philippine talent for DTC brands 🥇 Hard-to-reach strategic hires ♟️ No ongoing fees 🤝 Building 7-figure biz w my wife on 4hrs/day ⏱️ Sharing the failures that cost me $3.5M 💀

Headhunting top 1% Philippine talent for DTC brands 🥇 Hard-to-reach strategic hires ♟️ No ongoing fees 🤝 Building 7-figure biz w my wife on 4hrs/day ⏱️ Sharing the failures that cost me $3.5M 💀

Logan Merrick ranks #165 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Staffing & Recruiting, and is a standout voice in New Zealand. They have 19.4K followers and published 15 posts in the last 30 days at a 3.5% average engagement rate.

The roast

Logan claims he scaled his business to $500k a month while working four hours a week, which explains why his LinkedIn content is the literary equivalent of a Craigslist ad for a bridge in Brooklyn. It’s comforting to know the only thing he’s actually headhunting is the gullible.

About Logan

At 23, I built a $3.5M ARR dev agency. But I made a fatal mistake, and lost it all. I was working 96 hr weeks. 7 days straight. I had no life. And burnout became my bi-weekly rest-day. I was completely miserable. Depressed even. But I wanted to win so badly. So I kept pushing. Squeezed every ounce of blood I had into it. Until it collapsed... and I lost everything. My $3.5M business, my income, my reputation: gone. (*flush* down the toilet) The big mistake? I'd spent 5 years optimising for cost. Not outcomes. I hired cheap. And it cost me my time. My health. And ultimately, my business. I was completely broke. And in massive debt. But also, wiser. — With bills to pay, I started a new business. But this time, I did it differently. I focused on building strong systems. To free my time. And to never be the bottleneck again. So I headhunted elite talent (in the Philippines). Documented processes for everything. Within 10 months it scaled to $165k MRR. (While I only worked 5hrs /week) And in 3 years, we: > hit $500K/month. Still... on 5 hrs/week. > had warehouses in 4 countries. > hired a General Manager (in PH). — In 2024, I sold my brand to a larger US company. Now I'm building Wilbound with my wife. Helping DTC brands hire elite Philippine operators with a unique, direct headhunting approach. Here's what you'll find on my feed: → Lessons from 150+ hires for DTC brands → The founder mistakes that cost me $3.5M → How we're building to $1M net income on 4hrs/day If that sounds useful, hit follow.

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