The short, and probably the longer answer, is no. It’s a wild guess, with the most likely value, based on averages, to be zero. They’ll have a “value.” What the real world number is… 
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lol. Although there is usually a formal valuation of the company at each round of financing. Share value is based on that valuation and doesn’t necessarily increase with each round.
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Indeed. The question is, are those numbers ever actually realized? So, stated value, vs real world exercised value.
This might help.
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Even at publicly traded companies values may fizzle out so the future value is unpredictable. The co can go under for various reasons or acquired in a takeover that is very unfavorable to the shareholders (a local example - Icos, the co that made that billion dollar PDE5 inhibitor pill the name of which will most likely will be bleeped out by CC).
iMO, if one treats options as extra gravy, all is well.
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Not sure if this answers your question, @1214mom, but DS#1 was given stock shares in the company, and they had a BOD (Probably only a few people, not sure) hold their annual meeting where the stock value was reviewed. When the company he was with was acquired by another (big) company, they paid out the value of the stock over 3 years (and then there was an additional retention bonus also over time for some employees).
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(never mind, already answered)
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