What the parent asks is not about value in the Syrusian sense, but whether the aquisition price was justified - whether the acquisition will in actuality increase Condé Net's value by more than this amount.

Obviously, whoever gave a green light for the purchase must have thought so.

>Obviously, whoever gave a green light for the purchase must have thought so.

You could be right, or there could be other motivations. For example, maybe they thought the company had a one-in-five chance of being worth ten times that much in two years, so they figured it was worth the price.