[smrk007]

Do you mean taking a company public without any co-founders and employees, or starting originally with none, then later taking some on?

If the latter, I would think Dropbox would count, since at least originally it was a single founder.

[siruva07]

I mean IPO’d with one employee - the founder

[pcthrowaway]

I suspect IPO would be impossible with one 'person'. You'd have other people on payroll: Lawyers and accountants at the very least. If you're paying millions of dollars to professionals anyway at a certain point it would more sense to hire the people directly, right?

[siruva07]

Maybe not. Conceivably, everyone could be on payroll as contractors except the founder.