Obama <3s the techies

President Obama is having a little party tonight in the Bay Area, and you’re invited! That is, as long as you’re the head of a major tech company or venture outfit.

Obama’s people say the meeting is “part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can work together to win the future” and unicorns and sunshine and happy things.

Obama also plans to talk about “his commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy.”

Here’s the invite list:

• John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

• Carol Bartz, President and CEO, Yahoo!

• John Chambers, CEO and Chairman, Cisco Systems

• Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter

• Larry Ellison, Co-Founder and CEO, Oracle

• Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix

• John Hennessy, President, Stanford University

• Steve Jobs, Chairman and CEO, Apple

• Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO, Genentech

• Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Google

• Steve Westly, Managing Partner and Founder, The Westly Group

• Mark Zuckerberg, Founder, President, and CEO, Facebook

(Notice the “NetFlix” entry. Administrations are so cute sometimes, aren’t they?) -Julianne