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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by satvikpendem on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:08PM (#35158670)
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.

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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by blsapologist42 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:24PM (#35159933)
What was their revenue though?
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Re:Meta to Layoff 10k Employees by satvikpendem on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @06:27PM (#35159973)
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

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