Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process

I need your advice, guys. Angel-funded startup isn't going to make it to its series A, will be going on the auction block soon. I'm an employee with a significant equity stake, but not a founder, who invented and implemented the software which is the company's sole salable asset. (In hindsight I am very aware that this was a lousy situation to have put myself in, but here we are anyway.) The software has real value, good market visibility, and actual sales. I don't think we'll have much trouble finding buyers -- but most of the likely acquirers are larger corporate types I have little interest in working for long-term. (This is at least partly burnout talking, but I'm kind of done working for other people at all at this point.) So I know I need to get out in front of my management team before they make a deal I'll walk away from, but this is new territory for me and I have no idea what would be reasonable to ask for and what would get me laughed out o