These folks just put up a long post trying to weigh the risk v reward at various startup stages.
Mostly summarized into: "Joining at Series C may give you an ideal combination of risk and reward. Series C startups had the highest weighted growth in our analysis, followed by Series B and A."
Mostly summarized into: "Joining at Series C may give you an ideal combination of risk and reward. Series C startups had the highest weighted growth in our analysis, followed by Series B and A."
https://www.joinprospect.com/blog/which-stage-startup