In reply to Matt.

A growth council makes growth a goal in and of itself otherwise it wouldn't be called a growth council.

You know if you do a good job or not based on how happy people are with the services you provide not just amount of users and if you are making a profit to continue your work and improve. That is basically what WordPress is about or should be. And profit here is if there is interest from devs to actually want to continue to work on the project and improve it. More users doesn't mean crap if devs aren't happy. But based on your StoW you will be using paid devs to a higher degree so I guess that doesn't matter that much in the end. People that are paid have a greater acceptance of working with some things.