Tech leaders want more employees, hugs and golf for Christmas, according to blog
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When Christmas rolls around, even influential tech personalities have wish lists.
Craig Newmark, who founded Craigslist, would like a completely new Leonard Cohen album. Tony Hsieh, founder and chief executive of online shoe and accessories giant Zappos, is hoping for “hugs and kisses.”
And for Dennis Crowley, who founded Foursquare, 10 more engineers and two more project managers would really hit the spot.
Several big names are among the more than 130 industry players who fessed up to blogger Sam England, who listed their responses on What They Want for Christmas.
Mashable.com co-editor Ben Parr has lofty holiday requests: “true and everlasting love, followed by a Bernese Mountain Dog.”
Over at Gizmodo.com, editor Jason Chen wants attention. But not in the way you think.
“It is one of the rarest things you can get, yet everyone can give it,” he explains. “Unlike most actual gifts, attention is free, yet also very expensive. You can never get your attention back, and once you give it away, you can never give it again. There’s not an infinite amount of attention to pass around.”
Freakonomics author Steven Levitt was much less philosophical. He’d be happy with a round of golf with a top professional golfer.
-- Tiffany Hsu
