1) something being legal, is not the same as being a reputational risk. If you get a reputation of quitting your job with no notice, well generally that's tota

1) something being legal, is not the same as being a reputational risk. If you get a reputation of quitting your job with no notice, well generally that's totally legal, but it will eventually get harder to get a job, all else being equal. However... 2) I think everyone knows that Softbank just had a very hard time, so I think this is both understandable (if things calm down for them then a year from now no one will hold this against t hem), and also the least of their worries (if I were looking for VC's right now, Softbank would not be at the top of my list regardless of whether I had heard this or not).