I’m on the path you’re on - bootstrapped and starting to look at potential exit strategies. I truly hate the people management aspect of running a business and I’ve thought about replacing myself as the CEO several times - but finding someone who can truly buy into your mission and vision, and also execute on it without you having to micromanage would be ideal but incredibly risky and hard.
Perhaps partnering with a private-equity investment firm will allow you to offload the management part (that’s what they specialize on) and also extract the value or rather allow you and your cofounders to take something off the table.