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FORTUNE — Where will Marissa Mayer take Yahoo? I’ll be asking Yahoo’s new CEO tonight, on stage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Palo Alto.

This will be Mayer’s first interview since she moved to Yahoo from Google last July. You can watch it tomorrow right here on Postcards.

There are lots of topics we could explore. After all, Mayer is the youngest CEO in the Fortune 500. She is the first Fortune 500 chief to enter the job pregnant. And she is the most famous CEO to juggle a big corporate turnaround challenge with a newborn. Macallister Bogue will turn two months old this Friday.

But we’ll be talking Yahoo, primarily. I’ll ask Mayer about her plan to revive the long-suffering web giant. What’s her vision? What’s her acquisition strategy? What has she learned in the job so far?

What else should I ask her? Let me know — @PattieSellers on Twitter.

By the way, I profiled Mayer in Fortune last month. So far, she’s proving her doubters wrong. Yahoo stock is up 18% since she became CEO four months ago.

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