Yipee!! Thank you @good-karma and @pfunk n.n
This is a hard but good question. I'll give it a try.
Based from the circulation of Steem in an the attention economy, I think that there are 4 major groups to choose from and those are the authors, developers, speculators, and advertisers. If I were the CEO, I would mostly value:
- The Authors
- The Developers
- The Speculators
The reason why I choose these three is because they mainly form part of the whole economy and community at present. I had trouble choosing between the speculators and advertisers because I think they are the ones that directly input steem. But I choose the speculators over advertisers because I don't think that we have the model for advertising yet, do we? Also, I think we need to focus getting more authors to join so that the collective attention of Steemit will grow enough that advertisers would hurriedly get in line by themselves.
With regards to including the developers. We really need these people because they are Steem's builders. Valuing them would result to the enhancement of all features in Steem and in effect attract more speculators and authors.