So, if you approach 0 employees asymptotically, the stock will approach ∞.

I sincerely hope this new thesis you've unleashed on the world is called the DeathArrow in business schools across the world.

give man a Nobel

Let me guess. You work in crypto.

Limitless growth

Why stop a 0? If we can have negative interest rates, why not negative employment? Make employees pay you to work for them.

I'm pretty sure that's a thing with certain types of internships.

Revenue (or profit) per employee is always the metric to use, where employee >= 1, since there is no use making 0.01 cents if there are 0 employees.

WhatsApp famously had ~50 employees for ~$16 billion in acquisition price.

What was their revenue though?

Who knows / cares? Their product is the stock itself that was then sold to the acquirer.

The show Silicon Valley has a great parody of this fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZFTaEenaHM