It was a complete surprise when Warren called me at my office at Yahoo, and my secretary said it was Warren Buffett. I figured it was a friend of mine playing a joke on me. Susan Decker More Quotes by Susan Decker More Quotes From Susan Decker I hope the next owner can do something to revitalize the spirit of the core things that made Yahoo very, very unique and create a distinction in consumers' minds about why they love Yahoo Inc still. It will be helpful if it is private or part of a much larger corporation to achieve that. Susan Decker top-news Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties. Susan Decker became unfortunately many because Berkshire Hathaway can transfer excess capital from businesses that don't need it to businesses that do need it, tax free and in a way that enhances compound annual growth rates. Susan Decker need free growth way Yahoo would benefit from going private or becoming part of a larger corporation. Susan Decker benefit corporation going part When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and distribution, and really focusing on news, sports, finance - the things that uniquely Yahoo was really terrific at - and really build that whole flywheel. Susan Decker think you finance sports