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For any of you who have been reading the newspapers, listening to the news this week, you

know how lucky we are to have Sue Decker here with us today. She is the president.

What's that?

They're glad to get rid of me.

Oh, yeah, the folks at Yahoo said, go home for the day. Well, listen, she is the president of Yahoo, and you can imagine this is a pretty busy week for her.

And so we're going to probably get some really interesting insights into what's going on there during this very exciting week.

As a little bit of background, Sue Decker has been at Yahoo since 2000, and she started out as a CFO and has risen through the ranks and is now the

president. And for all those students in the room, just to understand her academic background,

she started out at Tufts as a computer science and economic students, and then went on to Harvard

Business School. So let's give her a big one warm welcome. Sue Decker.

Well, thank you.

It's great to be here.

So I was listening to the introduction.

I thought year 2000, I think you guys were in elementary school or something at that point.

So it just feels like just like yesterday that I joined Yahoo.

But it's always great to come back and see the bright, eager minds in the room and I'm thrilled to be here.

It was great also walking around the campus and seeing the nice weather and everybody in backpacks.

The only challenge was parking. Is parking really hard here? I parked in like special permit only. I'm afraid I'm getting arrested when I leave. So anybody has like a tag they can give me when I get out to go get my car

off the tow truck. That would be helpful. So I, Tina just said, talk about anything. So I'm not

actually sure what I'm talking about. I think I'm talking about, I try to think what might be

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