From Captivity to Millions: NVIDIA Employee’s Emotional Reunion and Windfall After Years as a Hostage

Like many Americans, I spent today watching (and crying and crying some more) as the hostages being held in Gaza for the last 2 years were reunited with their families. It was so beautiful, breathtaking, heartbreaking and every other emotion wrapped up in one big ball. A message a boss penned to his employee was also very inspiring.

Absolute perfection. Avinatan Or’s boss at @nvidia writes to him, read till the end:

“Avinatan Or, I hope you have a good excuse for not showing up to work at NVIDIA for 738 days.

But every Sunday morning for two years, the head of NVIDIA Israel’s HR, Gideon Rosenberg, sent an… pic.twitter.com/e0UEqp6ohP
— Yael Bar tur 🤞 (@yaelbt) October 13, 2025

For comparison, @PepsiCo never once mentioned their employee Guy Gilboa-Dalal. https://t.co/5tkNdJYkA4
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) October 13, 2025

For those who might be unaware, NVIDIA stock went up a lot over the last two years ... like a lot.

This wins the prize. https://t.co/pJYt3GCCMv
— Daniel S. Loeb (@DanielSLoeb1) October 13, 2025

I’m not crying from this. Not crying at all.

Narrator: he was indeed crying… https://t.co/ttLhcjRB1d
— Miles Penn (@msjpenn) October 13, 2025

I was also crying.

Two years of not being able to sell any $NVDA hopefully he is healthy and able to enjoy his millions https://t.co/6ijc6WrTBl
— Fluffy The Hen (@FluffyTheHen) October 13, 2025

He left captivity a millionaire. Can you imagine living in hell and walking out with millions of dollars?

“…the global CEO, Jensen Huang, mentioned your name in every quarterly internal meeting, telling 40,000 employees that their colleague was being held captive by Hamas.” https://t.co/9arRdfAEVE
— Dan Senor (@dansenor) October 13, 2025

They refused to let their employees forget one of their own was suffering.

.@amazon never publicly acknowledge that hostage Sasha Troufanov was an employee until he was released after 16 months of hell (and their silence)

They sure love using Jewish brains to build their product but don't mind dropping Jews when playing the PR game

I'll never forget https://t.co/pHhhqyb611
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) October 13, 2025

Despicable behavior on the part of Amazon. It's good to see some companies value the lives of their employees.

NVIDIA stock surge means that Avinatan Or became a multimillionaire while stuck in the Hamas tunnels https://t.co/ARUaO0Z7KQ
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) October 13, 2025

"...and I also have some pretty good news about what’s happened with your stocks over the past two years."

😂😂😂 https://t.co/Tbe1bWl4yq
— Matt Knee ((📟)) (@matt_knee) October 13, 2025

That was my favorite part.