<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Arora isn’t a movie idol or a YouTube star—he’s a tech executive, and one whose name most Americans wouldn’t recognize. He didn’t encounter this sort of reception in San Francisco, where he had spoken at TechCrunch Disrupt a month prior, or in New York City, where he addressed a Goldman Sachs gathering. At such events he’s treated with a mixture of respect and curiosity, as you’d expect for someone who helped turn Google </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">into a behemoth and then left it, not for a CEO job, not to business-ify another up-and-coming Silicon Valley company, but to make investments at SoftBank</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">, an enigmatic Japanese telecom conglomerate.</span>