Do we need Zebras 🐕 or Unicorns 🐩

I came across this article recently; the central theme is summed up in the following statement below:

The current technology and venture capital structure is broken. It rewards quantity over quality, consumption over creation, quick exits over sustainable growth, and shareholder profit over shared prosperity. It chases after “unicorn” companies bent on “disruption” rather than “zebra” companies: profitable businesses that solve real, meaningful problems and in the process repair existing social systems.
(Paraphrase of the article linked above)

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Is there a case here?

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This is very apt. I can name two companies on both sides.

Unicorn- Rocket Internet

Zebra- Tencent

We need Zebras plsss…