I don't think this is accurate. Almost all VC funding wants your company to be a unicorn, and the typical time horizon until a successful IPO, say, is 11 years.

I don't think this is accurate. Almost all VC funding wants your company to be a unicorn, and the typical time horizon until a successful IPO, say, is 11 years. Put another way, if you're exiting quickish-ly, you're almost certainly not the unicorn that the VC is aiming for.