I don't think they need any of your prayers, they're likely better than all of us combined and better than any person who joined Apple later.

Jobs was evidently pissed to lose those 3 people, so it’s safe to assume they were very senior folk. They likely were involved in the iPhone design to trigger this CEO panic

Imagine having vested stock before the release of the iPhone. Imagine getting paid a top dollar package to take your experience to a competitor.

Those three people made out like bandits. One could only wish to be in their shoes.

They made the best decision based on the information they had at the time. No need to mock someone based on that.

Given the rest of the exchange between Steve and Colligan, they might have needed to leave for other reasons too.

How much mockery would you trade to get some 2007 Apple RSOs?

Everyone wins when they have the benefit of hindsight.

I wasn't trying to mock them - just a light-hearted joke.

So you were mocking them.

No need for thoughts and prayers, if they worked at Apple as engineers at that time and weren't dumb enough to sell their shares they are likely multi-millionaires at this point.

Well.. history tells that people usually sell shares too early. It’s hard to not sell if they increased a lot in value.