This must have been a traumatizing experience but the one thing I would want to add to it based upon my own experience is that things don't get that much better

This must have been a traumatizing experience but the one thing I would want to add to it based upon my own experience is that things don't get that much better at the unicorns. Having worked for one that's still chugging along, I've seen the fake-it-til-you-make-it paradigm persist well into the 'mature' phase of a company. The industry at large feels like such a house of cards. It's not that value isn't being generated, but rather that it has been so dramatically overvalued.