growth relative to what? to falling bitcoin? is that what they call it now? and the fact that at the price of 8K for bitcoin star was 1200 does not take into account?
He did not say anything about a growth, from the article above you will read Stellar gains more than 8% following XRP because of the dump happened to Bitcoin.
nobody is going to call it a growth if the price is lower from where it before, it is just you misinterpreted it as growth while he was talking about gain.