31. Bill Nye the GMO Guy

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">Alberto E. Rodriguez/GettyShailene Woodley "hangs loose" with her "Spectacular Now" co-stars while barefoot on the red carpet at the film's premiere.</div></div></div>Actress Shailene Woodley may be raking in up to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-shailene-woodleys-divergent-paycheck-2014-3" target="_blank">half a million dollars for her role</a> in the upcoming "Divergent" three-part franchise, but that doesn't mean the 22-year-old is living the high life.
In a new interview with <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shailene-woodley-is-divergent-star-685842" target="_blank">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Woodley revealed a side of herself that few have seen: hippie chick.
There have been <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/wonderfully-hippie-new-agey-things-that-shailene-woodley-sai" target="_blank">clues along the way</a> - like when the actress <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/16/shailene-woodley-barefoot-running-shoes_n_1208836.html" target="_blank">wore barefoot running shoes</a> to the Golden Globes after party in 2012 or attended "The Spectacular Now" premiere without shoes, wearing a Navajo pendant, and throwing out the "hang loose" hand sign [see right].
But we didn't quite realize the extent of Woodley's fur and diamond-shunning, mountain water-gathering, hug-happy, anti-Hollywood ways until she <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shailene-woodley-is-divergent-star-685842" target="_blank">opened up to THR</a>.
Here are a few of our favorite quotes.
Hugging:
<ul>
<li>Explaining why she hugs every reporter on a red carpet press line: "We've got a set amount of time in our lives, you know. You might as well make every conversation count. So that's like the hug. It's kind of like, 'Hey, I'm real. You're real. Let's connect.'"</li>
</ul>
Religion:
<ul>
<li>"My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees."</li>
<li>"I'm going to be a citizen of this planet, and I'm going to do my responsibility and live in stride with nature instead of constantly fighting against her."</li>
</ul>
Fashion:
<ul>
<li>"I exclusively buy used clothes." </li>
<li>"If I was to show up wearing my five-toe shoes, my Melodia organic leggings and some hippie top, no one is going to take me seriously ...When I go on a red carpet, I'm Shailene, but I'm also Shailene representing a movie. I'm there for my boss, for my employer, so part of that comes with wearing the uniform."</li>
<li>Although she has her limits, she refuses to wear fur or diamonds.</li>
<li>During the THR interview, Woodley was wearing a Navajo pendant. She explains of its significance: "It's my way of just recognizing spirit - as hippie as that may sound - in an industry where sometimes materialism is the main focus, it's kind of my way of grounding and remembering what's important to me."</li>
</ul>
Drinking Water:
<ul>
<li>"She totes around a glass Mason jar for drinking water because she doesn't want to expose herself or the planet to the estrogen-like chemicals used in plastics," notes THR.</li>
<li>When in Los Angeles, she lugs 5-gallon carboys up in the mountains to capture her own drinking water. </li>
</ul>
Traveling:
<ul>
<li>Woodley has no current home, but instead says, "I'm doing the vagabond lifestyle for a bit."</li>
<li>She just trekked to Costa Rica by herself before embarking on the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-shailene-woodleys-divergent-paycheck-2014-3#ixzz2vDrC1IYY" target="_blank">"Divergent" press tour</a>.</li>
</ul>
Friends and Lovers:
<ul>
<li>"I fall in love with human beings based on who they are, not based on what they do or what sex they are."</li>
<li>THR conducted part of Woodley's interview during the Sundance Film Festival. Writer Tatiana Siegel mused, "She and her two best friends - a long-haired brunette and a young man who looks like he just stumbled out of a Phish concert, her constant Sundance companions whom she declines to identify - forage for strange fruits in whatever city they visit ... I begin to get the impression that she might be romantically involved with her two friends, whom she says she met six years ago. Then again, maybe they simply share a passion for fruit-foraging and Wasatch Mountain road trips."</li>
</ul>
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">Jason Merritt/GettyTwo of Shailene Woodley's favorite things: Laura Dern and hugging.</div></div></div>Her Close Friendship with Laura Dern:
<ul>
<li>Woodley and Dern bonded on the "Fault in Our Stars" set. Dern delivered a spot-on impression of Woodley in a restaurant during their Pittsburgh shoot: "Shailene's like, 'God, great, I looked at your menu. It's so awesome. Hey, what kind of oil do you guys cook in? Oh, you do? Hmm, you never use beef fat from sustainable farms where it's grass-fed? Oh wow, you guys are open to that? Cool. Can we have a tour of your kitchen?' "</li>
<li>"People might think they're saving the planet, taking half steps," says Dern. "Shailene is taking it to such a different level."</li>
<li>Dern says the two have become so close that "There are times when I have called my house when out of town and found out that Shailene's over here making dinner with my children."</li>
</ul>
How She Dealt With Losing A Role To Dakota Fanning:
<ul>
<li>At age 9, Woodley was devastated after she lost out on the "I Am Sam" role to Dakota Fanning. She recalls: "My dad pulled me aside, and he said: 'Shai, what are you doing? You have so much anger, and you're feeling so let down by the fact that you didn't book [this]. I want you to close your eyes right now and picture this Dakota girl, and I want you to send her so much love and so much light because one day you're going to book something that you really want, and you're not going to want all of the girls around you that you competed against to feel anger against you. You're going to want them to support you on your journey. And so it's your turn right now to support Dakota on her journey.' And so I did that." </li>
</ul>
What's Next For Her?
<ul>
<li>"I might open a restaurant, and it's going to be like restaurant in the morning, dance club at night," says the self-described omnivore. "Who knows?"</li>
</ul>
Watch Shailene Woodley on the set of her <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/shailene-woodley-is-divergent-star-685842" target="_blank">Hollywood Reporter</a> interview and cover shoot below:

The Young Star Of Huge New 'Divergent' Franchise Is A Hardcore Hippie

He didn't win the Powerball.
Banking on a lottery windfall as his last hope for a happy life, accused gunman Elliot Rodger - who police say killed six people and himself Friday night in Isla Vista, California - had fixated on the lottery as his last chance to become "wealthy at a young age," as put it in the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/elliot-rodgers-manifesto-2014-5">137-page statement</a> he emailed to several people before his rampage. He believed wealth would finally make him attractive to women, whose apparent indifference drove him to despair and, ultimately, murder.
It was a distant hope to stake his life on, given that the odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are in the neighborhood of 1 in 175 million. But the belief points to the combustible mix of naivete, narcissism, and entitlement that characterized Elliot's psychology and, to some degree, that of the society he belonged to.
Rodger's memoir makes for compelling if nauseating reading. It's notable for its methodical style, its careful punctuation and grammar, and the stark, sincere, sometimes clinical manner in which he writes of his anguish and contempt. The prose is mostly plain and unadorned as he numbingly describes his increasingly solitary existence and details his litany of failures.
Though the text has been called a manifesto - and there are several passages in which he offers up a sort of ideology - it's mostly a memoir, beginning with his childhood, which he describes as idyllic and carefree, moving steadily forward in time year by year, through his parents' separation when he was 7, and pinpointing puberty as a turning point. His burgeoning sexual desire soon curdled into an intense resentment of women, as well as of any man he viewed as more romantically successful, and set him on a lifelong journey of alienation, self-pity, and rage.
Occasionally, his straightforward narrative style gives way to flights of wild grandiosity. At these moments, he seems to be morphing into a hokey caricature: the Phantom of the Opera, brooding from the wings, the disfigured comic-book villain perfecting a death ray in his secret lair. Such moments turn up frequently in his <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/elliot-rodger-youtube-video-2014-5">videos</a> as well, generally accompanied by a painfully self-conscious sounding cackle.
But his story's unmistakable theme is entitlement: Rodger's ardent belief that the world owed him a good life, something he mostly defined as walking hand in hand on the beach with a beautiful blonde girlfriend.
Rodgers grew up surrounded by wealth and status, and he bought into the promises of materialistic culture. He was a child of privilege, a rich kid, though perhaps not as privileged, or as rich, as the people who surrounded him. He believed he was better than his peers, that he was "high-class," as he put it, and by the most superficial measures perhaps he was. His father had directed a movie - albeit to lukewarm reviews and poor box-office sales. His stepmother was on a reality-TV show, "Les Vrais Housewives," but not one you could brag about. It was set in L.A. but aired in France. 
He was reasonably handsome, connected, and well-mannered, and had a pair of Gucci sunglasses and eventually a BMW, which he'd successfully lobbied for after insisting it would make him more confident. "I consider myself a sophisticated, polite gentleman, unlike most boys my age," he wrote in his <a href="http://elliotrodger.blogspot.com/">blog profile</a>.
Why, then, he wondered, was he still denied what was so plainly his due?
After deciding that more money and success would help him with women, he settled on a few possible paths to wealth: one was becoming a screenwriter, but after working at it for a while, he concluded that it was simply too hard, and, besides, even successful screenwriters didn't really make the kind of money he coveted. He also fantasized about creating a world-changing invention, as Mark Zuckerberg did with Facebook, but the hoped-for idea never materialized.
The thought of putting in real effort never seems to have held much appeal for him. His attempts to get a college degree generally petered out when he began obsessing about the happy social lives of his fellow students and opted to drop his classes rather than subject himself to further jealousy.
His parents arranged various jobs, but he often declined because he considered the work beneath him.
But there was one other easy possibility: persuading his mother to marry a rich man. He apparently viewed her, as he did all women, as an instrument that might serve his needs, and yet, like other women, she declined to accommodate him. "I will always resent my mother for refusing to do this," he wrote.
Finally, he pinned his hopes on the "power of attraction," the idea that positive thinking can bring personal rewards, which he'd first encountered in the best-seller "The Secret" by Rhonda Byrne and again in "The Power of Your Subconscious Mind" by Joseph Murphy. "I wanted to believe the theory could work," he wrote. "I needed something to live for."
***
Rodger was haunted by an obsession with status. When he got the opportunity to attend the premiere of "The Hunger Games" - for which his father served as a second unit director - he walked the red carpet in a designer shirt, writing proudly of how he'd refused to move aside when photographers wanted to shoot an unnamed actress standing behind him. You can see him there, standing awkwardly with his father, stepmother, and Sylvester Stallone, in an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf9ijiWiU2U">episode</a> of "Les Vrais Housewives."
On a trip to London to visit his grandmother, he relished his first-class ticket. "We skipped to the front of the line as we boarded the plane," he wrote, "and I took great satisfaction as I passed by all the other people who flew economy, giving all of the younger passengers a cocky little smirk."
Despite losing the Mega Millions and other lotteries, Rodger somehow convinced himself that Powerball would provide his salvation. In March 2013, he drove to Arizona to purchase 50 tickets, which he felt certain would him the $500 million jackpot.
When the Powerball winners were announced, he didn't check his tickets for three days, paralyzed with fear. Eventually he mustered the courage to look.
"I didn't win," he wrote. "I sat very quiet and still in my desk chair for a long time, all of the emotion swept out of me ... I had driven all the way to Arizona just to buy lottery tickets, because I was so desperate for a happy life in which girls would be attracted to me."
By then he had already hatched a plan to seek revenge on the "beautiful, popular people" and begun visiting a local shooting range to prepare himself.
Soon, he got his first handgun, a Glock 34 semiautomatic pistol, which he purchased legally for $700. "I was now armed," he wrote. "Who's the alpha male now, bitches?"
***
Throughout much of Rodger's memoir, it's not clear whom he hates more: the tall, attractive, "boisterous" men he considers his competition or the beautiful women he views as having rejected him. But gradually, his misogyny becomes more acute. "My hatred and rage toward all women festered inside me like a plague," he wrote. "Women deemed me unworthy of having them, and so they deprived me of an enjoyable youth, while giving their love and sex to other boys."
While Rodger may well have been mentally ill, his views on women are frighteningly common. The sickness of misogyny is deeply embedded in our society, and it finds expression in various forms - from rape, sexual assault, and physical abuse to street harassment and online bullying. Fantasies of male sexual power are wildly popular, and not only among men (see, for example, "Game of Thrones" and Jay Z's rap in "Drunk in Love," to name just two prominent examples).
As has been powerfully illustrated in recent days by the profusion of tweets under the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YesAllWomen?src=hash">#yesallwomen</a>, what makes Rodger unique is not that he hated women or even that he became violent toward them, but that he was so transparent and unabashed about it.
One <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ucsb-shooting-forum-associated-with-elliot-rodger-reacts-2014-5">online message board</a> he frequented, PUAhate, is "a forum full of men who are starved of sex, just like me," he wrote. Despondent and angry about female rejection, many of the members refer to themselves as "incels," short for involuntary celibate, and openly fantasize about harming women, while also regularly lashing out at one another. But "ElliotRodger" seems to be the only one who posted under his own name.
He sent a link to the website to his parents, to help them understand how he was feeling. They didn't respond - perhaps they were too shocked by the content to know quite what to say - though they appear to have gone to great lengths throughout his life to get him emotional support, working with an array of psychiatrists, therapists, life coaches, and "social-skills counselors," or what he called "hired friends."
As his self-proclaimed Day of Retribution approached, Rodger began developing an elaborate misogynistic ideology. Asking himself why women have what he called "perverted sexual attraction for the most brutish of men instead of gentlemen of intelligence," he concluded it was because they themselves were beasts and should be treated as such.
Embracing a logic that echoed the racist faux science of eugenics, an intellectual underpinning of the Holocaust, he wrote that women's inability to choose the best mates would "hinder the advancement of humanity" and concluded that "the choice should be made for them by civilized men of intelligence."
As insane as this vision sounds, it's an apt description of the place of women in many cultures around the world.
"Women are like a plague," he went on. "They don't deserve to have any rights. Their wickedness must be contained in order to prevent future generations from falling to degeneracy."
Finally, he spun a fantasy of abolishing sex altogether, "which would mean abolishing women" (this section of his memoir suggests a certain homoerotic impulse he appears never to have examined). He proposed establishing a new government led by a supreme ruler, "such as myself," and backed by a "highly trained army of fanatically loyal troops."
Under this regime, most women would be placed in "concentration camps" and allowed to starve to death, but a few would be allowed to live "in secret labs," where they would be "artificially inseminated with sperm samples in order to produce offspring."
Rodgers wouldn't live to see this horrific vision realized. After slaying six people, he would put a gun to his head and fire, ending his own suffering, ruining his prized BMW and giving those of us he left behind yet another opportunity to examine the social conditions under which his hatred grew and festered.

What Can Elliot Rodger's Rant Teach The Rest Of Us?

India is seeing a <keyword id="138263" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="startup">startup</keyword> boom thanks to the internet proliferation. But as the deadline for <keyword id="6356988" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="TRAI">Trai</keyword>'s consultation approaches, the nationwide clamour for <keyword id="6391709" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Net-neutrality">net neutrality</keyword> is touching a crescendo with a number of internet ventures and startups telling Times of India <keyword id="6358815" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="tech">Tech</keyword> that they firmly stand in favour of an unfettered net. 
 
Almost all entrepreneurs that the TOI spoke to for this report unequivocally expressed that a free internet is their lifeline to future growth. Here are their reasons (in their own words) to vociferously demand that status quo be maintained. Read on... 
 
Metis Learning-- Bharat Gulia, founder, Metis Learning 
 
Startups are taking India by storm and companies that did not exist 10 years ago now have billion dollar valuations. In the process, they are creating thousands of jobs, strengthening India's image in the global markets and creating tremendous value for customers. However, the scenario was very different in the India of yore. 
 
Today's youngsters may not have witnessed the dreary 'License Raj' days. Contrived barriers, reinforced by obscure government policy, created monopolies. Uncompetitive, well-connected and cash-rich conglomerates and PSUs dominated. They thrived in an environment of scarcity where it took many years to buy an outdated scooter model, or even get a phone connection.The recent debate on net neutrality throws one back to those days. The choice India needs to make is simple - do we go back to the imprisoned economy of the license raj, or do we encourage fresh thinking and innovation. 
 
The lifeblood of innovation is a level-playing field where an 18-year-old can come up with a great solution that can beat the option that a huge telecom company is shoving down the throat of its users. Customers need to be free to choose what gives them greater value and entrepreneurs should not be constrained by artificial barriers to provide that solution to customers. 
 
The internet lies at the centre of the digital economy and the game-changing innovation we are seeing today. Let it be open! Let not fuddy-duddy babus and big businesses conspire to set up roadblocks that stifle entrepreneurship. Let's have an India where start-ups thrive along with big businesses and may the best man win. 
 
Whatfix --Vara Kumar, co-founder &amp; CTO, Whatfix, an online productivity tool that allows users and businesses to create interactive guides on their and third party websites 
 
I and Khadim started Quicko Labs after decades of experience of building world class products, this would have been difficult if not for net neutrality. We believe that an open system encourages innovation and if operators start charging for faster access, it would stifle the entire ecosystem. More importantly, competition is inevitable for any product and we believe that innovation and great customer service is what will drive your business ahead rather than faster access. 
 
Infinity Assurance - Puneet Gargya, co-founder and COO at Infinity Assurance Solutions, a startup that provides service administration of warranty programmes "No discrimination should be made against any user for any kind of internet usage. It is THE lifeline for people today with more and more businesses moving to the net. It is as essential as electricity and water. Trai must do whatever is required to protect it." 
 
ePaisa -- Siddharth Arora, CEO and co-founder, ePaisa ISPs and governments should treat all data on the Internet as equal. This means they shouldn't discriminate or change differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached /equipment or mode of communication. There has been a lot of commentary on these principles of Open Internet since the launch of Airtel Zero and the Trai consultation paper. ISPs think they have cracked the formula of a whole new revenue stream, but at the core of this discussion is the online business and consumer relationship. 
 
Large online players may think they have found a strategic way to find new traffic sources (today's non-internet users) and hold the customers. I believe this is a short-sighted view. Not only will these companies need to offer free access to their sites across all ISPs (increasing their costs, while they are already not making money), but their competition (also with deep pockets) will follow suit. 
 
More importantly, businesses that have focused on ways to lock customers instead of innovating and offering better services have failed. While it's a great introduction to the web for the non internet user, let's not undermine the intellect of this user. Over time, this user will want more and will move on to a service that gives him/her real value, not free access. 
 
ISPs are calling this the toll-free number equivalent of the internet. The truth is, toll-free may get you a customer, but it will not help you retain one." 
 
Binge -- Ajay Joseph, co-founder, Binge (Noroc Solutions), a billing startup that enables restaurant bill presentment and payment over the phone 
 
Net Neutrality is a very critical factor given that the core tenet of the internet is built on being a democratic platform. With the rapid increase in the penetration of the internet, it is critical that we as a country stay true to the core tenet of the internet. All the stakeholders, across the service providers, the OTT players and the governing authorities need to work in unison to continue to improve the value to the consumer and net neutrality will be at the centre of it. 
 
Konotor -- Srikrishnan Ganeshan, co-founder at Konotor, a mobile marketing and CRM product startup firm that helps businesses engage, retain and sell more to their app users 
 As an <keyword id="6359301" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Entrepreneur">entrepreneur</keyword>, I can definitely relate to why not honouring net neutrality creates an uneven playing field. In fact, when my startup was earlier building a messaging app, the fact that there were "Whatsapp only" plans was something that surprised me. Something that has the potential to stifle competition cannot be good for the customer. 
 
Citrus Pay --Satyen Kothari, MD and founder, Citrus Pay 
 
Free market competition and encouraging grass roots innovation is a critical aspect of building up a powerful entrepreneurial ecosystem. Creating obstacles in a truly open, neutral internet creates serious obstacles in enabling this ecosystem. 
 
The concept of net neutrality has been discussed deeply and upheld in many countries across the world, and India should not regress and violate this core foundational concept of the open internet. 
 
GoodWorkLabs -- Vishwas Mudagal, CEO, GoodWorkLabs 
I'm all for net neutrality. Let's not let corporate greed take over the internet. Let's nip this cancer in the bud. #?BhartiAirtel? - I know it makes perfect sense for you to ensure robust revenues from breaking net neutrality by preferring companies that have deep pockets. But it will kill all the innovation and startup boom that has just started. We need a level-playing field where a minnow can take on a shark, and it's the internet medium alone that can provide it. So let's end this right now. 
 
I also know there are various forms of net neutrality issues and violations from various companies both in India and outside, so we need to end this and we need everyone on neutral ground. 
 
Knowlarity -- Ambarish Gupta, CEO and founder, Knowlarity Communications 
 
Net neutrality is fundamental to having a robust set of internet companies in India. In its absence, we are not going to have a level-playing field and ultimately make the innovation suffer. I can understand the revenue pressure telecom operators are feeling because of many of the internet applications. 
 
However, the current position of telecom operators is neither very fruitful, nor sustainable in long term. If there is an end to net neutrality, it will reduce the innovation and increase the barrier to entry for young innovative start-ups to do new things. 
 
Internet is a corridor of doors, like the space Morpheus and Neo enter along with the Key Maker in film 'The Matrix Reloaded'. Just that, once you are at one of the doors of internet, it is endless and you don't need additional keys to open subsequent doors. This, in essence, is also the principle of net neutrality. 
 
The empowering nature of the internet is not merely because it facilitates flow of information, as the advent of radio and television did in the twentieth century. The core trait of the internet is that it has not only given access to abundant reservoir of information to consumers, but most crucially, it has given a level-playing field for the users - to not only consume, but to create, voice and dissent over the internet. 
 
By violating net neutrality in any of the forms, the core principle of the internet will be lost. And with it the aspirations of millions, who are yet to experience the internet, will be trampled. 
 
TripHobo -- Saket Newaskar, CTO and co-founder of TripHobo 
 
Internet is a market place and net neutrality ensures that ISPs don't interfere in this market place. Disturbing net neutrality can not only create a havoc in the online space but may affect offline business in a big way. 
 
Not only market place activities like branding, consumer communication and consumer experience be impacted, even essential activities like consumer service and support will be affected. Big players can give better experience while the smaller ones will struggle. Startups with deep pockets will definitely have a bigger advantage. All the existing big startups have become big because of net neutrality today. 
 
Startups of the future will be at a disadvantage. Airtel's new initiative is about helping Airtel make money. If big apps and content providers are able to subsidize data costs of their users, Airtel will make money. Users are not going to stop using essential and interesting apps even if they cost. However, this creates differential pricing for the same service i.e streaming. 
 
Thus Airtel is interfering in the marketplace. Airtel's role is streaming and not creating content. It could be dangerous in the long run. Internet startups will definitely be affected. Innovation will be scuttled as the cost of reaching one's users will increase. Competitive landscape and even playing-field is essential for new internet startups to flourish." 
 
PropTiger -- Dhruv Agarwala, CEO and co-founder, PropTiger.com 
 
"Net neutrality makes the internet a level playing field. Airtel's Zero will favour app developers and websites with larger pockets who have capacity to pay. As a result, small start-ups may suffer. People and firms with small budgets will have to think long and hard before choosing between various data 
 
packs because certain applications will be free or costly depending on the data pack. People who use free data packs will also not be able to access the websites or apps which have not paid for preferential treatment. What may happen with plans such as Airtel's Zero is that when big app developers and websites pay for it, others might find it difficult to refuse to be part of the race for very long. They might also be compelled to pay eventually. When consumers are compelled to choose between free and paid internet, it is obvious that they would reject paid internet. This might put many internet start-ups out of business. The internet will become less diverse than it is now". 
 
Toppr.com -- Zishaan Hayath, co-founder, Toppr.com 
 
Toppr stands completely in support of net neutrality and the idea that access to internet/data should be same for all without any external throttling. Net neutrality is the basis on which internet was built and it has been successful in providing a level-playing field for all without any bias. Lack of net neutrality would clearly affect the freedom of choice of consumers which could end up creating monopolies across industries". 
 
Wingify -- Paras Chopra, founder, Wingify, PriceBaba.com 
 
It is extremely important to ensure that freedom of speech is upheld. That's a basic human right. Net neutrality implicitly defeats that freedom of speech. We are all in support of net neutrality and want the regulator / government to do the right thing. Internet is an opportunity for innovation to occur without barriers of wealth, access and background. Thus. it should be truly a level playing field for everyone. - Annkur Agarwal, founder, PriceBaba.com 
 
ClearTax -- Archit Verma, founder, ClearTax Net neutrality is required for infrastructure services. I moved back from the US and Silicon Valley to India to start ClearTax. In the US, it took a lot of effort to keep the internet neutral, but now the US president and the FCC have strongly committed themselves to net neutrality.We in India are a fledgling Internet economy and growing quickly. Any mistakes here will stifle innovation. The internet is built for disruption and it gives the big and the small an equal platform to innovate and compete. Net neutrality is a first principle. It is core to the infrastructure. 
 
Thenwat -- Umashankar Das, founder, Thenwat If India believes that it can create a Google, then it should support #NetNeutrality. Otherwise, this will push us to stone ages in another 10 years. - 
 
Rockmetric -- Nimesh, founder Rockmetric 
 
Internet gives a level playing field for 'anyone' with motivation and skills to compete with the biggest players and win over customers with limited capital. Openness of the internet allows this miracle to happen! If the internet starts favouring larger players by increase entry barriers, it will only kill innovation. 
 
Liberated Keypad -- Jayanthkumar, founder, Liberated Keypad Internet Neutrality is part of a larger issue of Trai playing servant to COAI. COAI has successfully made it such that people who by mistake violate their 3G packs face huge bills on postpaid. Airtel, for example, has reduced its monthly validity pack to 28 days so that you might forget to recharge your pack, and not carry forward your balance. That, or they simply just reduced your pack value, urging you to consume more.We need to get more and more people aware that the COAI is a very powerful lobby, and has had its way for a very long time. I will not stand by a service provider so greedy with profits. I want them to serve the consumers, instead of serving themselves.We need to get rid of products like Free Facebook, Free WhatsApp, Free Flipkart, which reduce the ability of small players like myself to compete with bigger media houses, companies, startups." 
 
MeraCareerGuide.com -- Love Chopra, founder, MeraCareerGuide.com The basic foundation of internet is neutrality. Airtel Zero is a very basic attempt to kill its neutrality, you can't imagine how bad this could go if it is allowed; this will surely kill product innovation. No blocking, No throttling, No paid prioritization, No special treatment to deep pocket player. I support #NetNeutrality. 
 
www.tinqr.in -- Karan Aggarwal, co-founder, www.tinqr.in 
 
We are bootstrapped technology startup from Delhi. We have put all our lives' savings into our company because we were confident that in a free country like ours, excellence and hard work will thrive. But today, our confidence is fading. We see a threat to our freedom, a threat to our dreams. We thrive on the internet. Without net neutrality, there will be no level-playing field, no startup dreams. We sincerely request you to let this be the way it is. Don't take this away from us. We demand net neutrality for total online freedom. 
 
Chorusplay --- Hari PK, founder, Chorusplay 
 
India, as a country that's embracing technology, is growing at a massive pace. And it will take us decades to match the pace of developed countries. The only, and the most effective level-playing field for all of us - individuals and businesses, is the window to grab the new technologies, especially for startups. 
 
The compromise on net neutrality (or the idea behind it) will kill the upcoming startups and new businesses. And it will also have a (very) strong retrospective impact on the existing startups (who cannot afford to BUY their way through this problem). With the prime minister spearheading the ""Make In India"" campaign, we all dream of a nation that will be the next tech hub and a budding ground for startups. 
 
The absence of net neutrality will be a potential death row for all those dreams. Let's unite for a better country, a better dream and a much-needed revolution. And we have to do it today, right now. 
 
Yogurt Labs -- - Shardul Mohite, founder, Yogurt Labs 
Telcos controlled VAS and we all know how that whole industry ended up. They were acting like thugs demanding 70-80% of revenue as a fee from VAS companies. If they get to control how the data is being used on their network, we would see similar kind of attitude repeated again. Startups that think Airtel Zero or Internet.org are good ideas for customers are not thinking long term. When telcos start controlling who gets in front of the customer, they would demand huge amount of fees too. Net neutrality is the only way to ensure that no one gets to control (in short-term or long-term) how anybody uses internet to reach potential customers.

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