how did clemmer do it? rick took over as ceo on january 1st of 2009.before that, he masterminded the turn ajound at agir which systems, which he then flipped to lsi for $3.5 billion in stock in 2000. that's what brought him to our attention. then he spent a couple of years as an advisor at kkr, one of the private equity firms that owned nxp semi before it came public. about a year and a half after taking the helm, clemmer took nxp public. it had over $5 billion in debt, and the initial offering price was actually slashed from the 19 to $21 range down to $14. why? no demand for the shares. not a lot of enthusiasm. but take a look at this chart going all the way back to the beginning. nxp stock spent the rest of 2010 rallying. then it stumbled hard at the beginning of 2011. after that it embarked on an amazing multiyear run and that's because under clemmer's leadership, it has spent the last six years innovating like crazy but in a very disciplined way. he didn't spend like crazy. he always focused on growing his businesses 50% faster than the competitio

let's talk with someone who's got credibility in spades, rick clemmer. he's the ceo of nxp semiconductor. he's been a transformational executive. nxp was long viewed as little more than a component supplier for apple. last year he snapped up freescale, a maker of chips for autos and the internet of things for $11.8 billion. four private equity firms had led a leveraged buy, paying company was always a few steps away from death's door. but to him it was a way to diversify the footprint away from the cell phone and towards autos and internet of things. now qualcomm is buying it for $110 a share. this stock could fall into the mid-60s in february. you're getting a monster return here. my charitable trust has owned this one for ages. rick clemmer is the definition of bankable. trying to adopt the same strategy. speaking of fitting, you know who has lost a great deal of credibility? james park of fitbit. you may like the product, but one thing we know about this stock is it loses you fortunes. last night park came out with some horrendous numbers and an even

last week, we inaugurated matt clemmer into the "mad money" diversified his offerings and sold to qualcomm. we saw the ceo of the old company when they bought broadcom. now, analogue devices are on the same course and the analog companies have to catch up much the stock has more room to run even after today's 4.4% rally. the rally that comes from taki estimates down only to beat them the next time. this is the second tier of such surprise. both dollar tree and cracker barrel disappointed the last time out. back in august, when dollar tree realized it was in a battle for market share not with dollar general but walmart. it plummeted from 95 to 85. we saw it cascade to 73 at the beginning of the month as the depth of the competition sunk in until this morning when they the stock poured more than 8% on this news. the truth is, there was a time when dollar tree would have been pulverized by a number that low. the fact that it missed the revenue estimates but didn't blow up, because management had already curved wall street's enthusiasm. that's a different kind of upset surprise, a lowered expe

. - "vacup clemmer?" - "vacoom clooner?" (vacuum cleaner gibberish) - just call it a broom. - [hector] captain, i think he's coming too. you just stay out of trouble. just sit there and don't move a muscle. - no, i'm not alright. i've been insulted and assaulted, and i insist that those things leave. - those people happen to be a very nice family. - no nice family runs around with animal skins. - oh, come on now, mr. tyler. would you throw out the ambassador of turkey, just because he wore a fez and his wife wore a veil? - of course not. - and you want to throw these people out, just because they dress differently? - oh, they don't. they come from-- - from where? - where they come from, captain? - where? nordania. - nordania? - yes. oh sure, nordania it's a small country between greenland and norway. yeah, it's west of siberia and east of alaska. - you don't say? fact, gronk and his family happen to be very important in nordania. - they even know the ambassador. - the ambassador from nordania? - hector. - as a matter of fact