I encourage you to do your own research, but the general rule of thumb is you will make more money working for an established tech company even if you do pick a unicorn. Since most of the data I have for this isn't public I couldn't share it if I wanted to, but in addition to all of the public data you can Google I personally know about a dozen people who were employee #X (X is a single digit number) at companies that were acquired for more than their last valuation at over $1 billion and only 1/4 of them actually felt like it was good financial ROI.
Does anyone have any numbers showing the typical employee being rewarded? Exactly how much money did the median employee at Uber, Lyft, or Slack make?