I wish I had the foresight to buy at $2.15. I bought in at $7.50 and have been riding the wave. I was stupid and sold some when it crossed $40 thinking that was the upper end, boy was I wrong. I ended up re-buying the amount of stock I sold off around $42 and have been riding that up since.
Lisa Su is positively brilliant. Completely engineering a new CPU from the ground up and achieving the results they did is incredible. What a great turn-around for AMD and as a consumer of their CPU's for many years I'm thrilled for them.
Out of the box thinking:
They sold some older chip designs and their supporting documentation to China. It went through governmental review. It was free money for old stuff, but it did help China teach students locally instead of having to go to the US and elsewhere.
They worked out a dicey approach to convertible bonds at a high interest rate, betting on being able to call them instead of paying them to term.
They sold Global Foundries.
They brought in an old professional freelance chip designer to design and create the complete Zen chip approach. He re-retired after completion.
They sold off their campus to lease them back.
They found some novel ways to enhance their graphics cards and took advantage of their microprocessor/motherboard approach with chipset design and pushed for the latest 4th Gen PCI standard and implemented it before anything but their own graphics cards could have a hope of running on it.
They developed and released in the public domain FreeSync.
The list goes on, but this is what comes to mind.
Lisa has done marvelously well with AMD.