[cbetti]

Sincere question: What benefit is there to owning equity in such a company in employee sized quantities?

[bspear]

Employee sized quantities should be much bigger at a Mittelstand company vs. VC-funded. You don't need thousands of people when you're going after 7-8 figure outcomes, which means each employee should be able to get better profit-sharing. You also are not diluted big-time by investors that can bully the cap table

[rgbrgb]

Presumably dividends if the owner doesn’t just capture profits via inflated salary.

[djbusby]

Maybe dividends, maybe cash-out if there is a change in ownership

[boppo1]

Dividends?