I much preferred the brief moment in time when "unicorn" was used to mean "someone who does both code and design really well," because it made sense: something

I much preferred the brief moment in time when "unicorn" was used to mean "someone who does both code and design really well," because it made sense: something rumored to exist but nobody's seen it, hard to capture, has magical powers to make things better. The only thing VC companies and unicorns have in common are: fairy tale, extinction? Is it really just "something rare?" Not a very deep metaphor.