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.

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.