Honestly, for an organization as big and important as they are, 300 staff still seems ridiculously tiny. I'm impressed.

> For those readers who were around three years ago, did you notice at the time any unmet needs that would have caused you to conclude that the WMF needed to increase spending by $30 million dollars?

I dunno, when I revisit pages, I am often surprised by how much more content there is now! So just comparing pages now vs then doesn't probably capture where bandwidth demands have actually grown. I imagine most of the increased demand is on Wikimedia, which is its own resource.