Again this is not black and white. There are plenty of non-VC funded companies that scaled quickly and had enough of an impact that you could say they "changed

Again this is not black and white. There are plenty of non-VC funded companies that scaled quickly and had enough of an impact that you could say they "changed the world" to some extent. There are plenty of VC-funded companies that went nowhere and changed nothing except the returns of their VC funds (for the worse).