Nikesh Arora is not only walking away from SoftBank with a severance package running into several hundred crores, he is also wiser from the interactions he has had with Misayoshi Son.

"I am not sad. I learnt a lot, sitting with Masa at dinner and chatting about life in the future," Arora told BusinessLine via Twitter.

Masayoshi Son and Nikesh Arora go a long way. Even though Son literally poached Arora in September 2014 from Google with a huge joining bonus running into millions of dollars, they have known each other for the last 10 years.

The 48-year-old seemed quite mature and composed while taking a flood of queries from netizens on the micro-blogging site.

He responded to certain comments with utmost humility, and to some criticism, he took them with a pinch of salt.

To a query on whether, his resignation will impact the Indian startup ecosystem, Arora replied in negative. He said that Masa is more Indophile than him thus indicating that Softbank will continue to focus in India.

"Not really, Masa has been intimately involved in all of them and has true passion for India. Am not going away :)"

For the Indian startup ecosystem, Nikesh Arora's resignation from SoftBank as it's President and COO yesterday came as a shocker.

Soon after he joined, Softbank invested in Ola and Snapdeal and in the last 17 months, the Japanese conglomerate has pumped in close to $1 billion in several startups including Housing.com, Oyo and Grofers. However, SoftBank's total commitment in the Indian market is around $10 billion and Son had early this year announced that the company would double its investments over the next 5 years.

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