While I agree 100% in the general desirability of bootstrapping and building a profitable business over taking investors money to build a growth machine, you do need to worry if you have taken investors money and have stalled. The investors will get rid of you as the CEO if you are not doing what they want you to do. If your company is not growing at the rate they expect they will find someone else who will be willing to do what they expect.
But their demands may be unreasonable, unrealistic, and perhaps even self-destructively stupid.
A number of companies have been killed because the original founders were fired and replaced by a more compliant team - who unfortunately had absolutely no clue how to run that particular business.
I'm not a fan of constant growth demands. Companies can fake growth in any number of ways, especially after winning a round. Ultimately it's down to persistent paying customers - not transient customers, and not "users" - and sales/margins. Anything else is PR for potential investors.
My conservative view is that it's fine to run a stable, profitable business without spectacular growth. You may get killed by the competition, but you're just as likely to be killed by the politics and finance of over-extending a business without a real case for it.
If all you demand is growth then that is what you will get - either real growth or something that looks like growth. Fake growth is none too helpful to anyone.
