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
Presumably dividends if the owner doesn’t just capture profits via inflated salary.
Maybe dividends, maybe cash-out if there is a change in ownership