A US tech company says its chief executive has quit after he was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing a female co-worker, in a clip that went viral.
The clip showed a man and a woman hugging on a jumbo screen at the arena in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before they abruptly ducked and hid from the camera.
The pair were identified in US media as Mr Byron, a married chief executive of Astronomer, and Kristin Cabot, the firm’s chief people officer.
Before this
CEO: Who are they going to complain to? HR?!
Before this: Epstein files connections to Mossad
After this: OMG DID YOU SEE THAT RELATIONSHIP GOSS ON THE COLDPLAY CONCERT OMGOMGOMG
Kristin Cabot, the firm’s chief people officer.
That’s not a good look 😬
She’s switching to Public Affairs.
Well she is working with people. Two of them but one didn’t know about the other.
*didn’t
Standard HR. Not a profession that’s renowned for moral and ethical integrity.
She took her job “people officer” too literally.
It was a great look at the “couple”
You know what IS a good look? Distracting you from the Epstein files!
Damn that shit suits you!
I get being embarrassed but resignation seems like an overreaction. Coldplay isn’t that bad.
Hey other tech CEOs, when you take your mistress to a concert where there’s a crowd camera, have a chat ahead of time about how to play it cool. Bet nobody would have noticed if they’d just smiled and been boring for a second until the operator moved on. That’ll be $50,000 please.
Inb4 his ex wife files for alimony+child support, and he tries to claim no income.
my understanding is the wife already changed her last name on facebook, so divorce filing is pretty much a given. He is definitely claiming no salary income, but she’s gonna grab him by the assets
Don’t these C-level guys usually get a golden parachute? He “tendered his resignation”, but probably still got some severance. Board could force him out but probably triggers some other vesting/equity clause. So having him “resign” but give him golden parachute.
Golden parachutes usually don’t involve inter-company affairs. He’s going to be lucky if the board doesn’t sue him for defamation of the company name essentially.
Per Axios report [1], Andy Byron appears to have negotiated some sort of exit package.
The company officially issued a statement Friday more than 24 hours after the story exploded, due in part to Byron’s slow resignation and exit package negotiations, another source told Axios.
These fuckers always get their 🧀 no matter what happens. Better to pay them off rather than stall it in court and risk attracting more attention.
[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/coldplay-kiss-cam-astronomer
Yeah, that’s fair. That sucks, I guess they took the easy path.
Well, fuck this.
This also isn’t some huge company. Closer to a startup still. Might not have that kind of benefits yet
What an insane comment and by-product of the modern day.
Don’t forget about how he blames the Democrats for getting ‘canceled’ and gets a speaking role at the next Republican Convention.
That’s not how it generally works. If you quit, the court will impute an income and you will owe based on that.
That’s exactly why I said “tries”.
Seems like if they hadn’t reacted to their images on the screen, this whole thing would have gone unnoticed.
I’ve seen this response a ton and I think that’s exactly correct, but I can’t imagine the anxiety in the hours, day and weeks after. Just waiting and wondering if anyone recognised you, if anyone had a recording/proof. Then after a few months under the radar I might not be a complete train wreck.
But then what if Coldplay puts out a Netflix special or something, then I’d have to wait and wait until it came out and then watch it and see if that moment makes it into the recording… And if it does? Now I’m just waiting for some random friend of a friend to watch it and go “hang on…”
I think I’d rather this timeline, if I was that idot.
Probably why I’d never cheat on my partner, especially at a huge public gathering, when the person I’m cheating with is an employee and I’m the fucking CEO and could lose my job over it.
Thankfully this man will certainly continue to fail up, and as soon as this news quiets down he’ll get hired by some other goon just like him to some other lucrative job where you just have to be an asshole a few times a week and otherwise the money will roll right in.
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This would have been over in fifteen minutes if it hadn’t been hard pushed to distract from Epstein.
Just look at the fucking Internet! Actual news media!
OH YEAH GIVE US THE GOSS ON THESE FUCKING RANDOS LITERALLY NOBODY KNEW THE NAMES OF TWO DAYS AGO!
I HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT EPSTEIN ALTOGETHER! WHO EVEN IS HE!
I’ve never seen more synthetic engagement with a topic in years. It’s insanity how this bullshit got so pressed on the public, did you see Reddit? They flooded this random drama on every single sub, if you didn’t catch how obviously it was coordinated then you need to take a double espresso and bash your head against the wall a few times to wake up.
People can remember two things, and lots of people like drama. This is a short laugh at a CEO getting a very small amount of comeuppance. It’s not going to make us forget how terrible Trump is or that the government is actively covering up for pedophiles.
We need small breaks of laughter to keep sane sometimes.
Why did this story distract you so easily
Just couldn’t handle the shame of being caught attending a Coldplay gig
I don’t really listen to their music, but they put on a good show.
I was interviewing with this company 💀. Withdrew my application/interview last week because of this.
Didn’t leave a reason. Just emailed recruiter, “I am no longer interested”.
Also, they have like 6-7 interviews with various people in company.
These multiple rounds of interviews to get a job are fucking ridiculous. They chose the pope in two fucking days, you do not need a week’s worth of interviews to know if I’m worth giving a paycheck.
To be fair, it has occasionally taken a very long time to choose the next Pope, which is how they ended up with the tradition of locking the cardinals up together and not letting them out until they’d made a decision in the first place.
tradition of locking the cardinals up
Seems like a good idea to implement all the time.
A lot of children would be living a better life.
I guess it depends on if they are interrogation style interviews or more of a getting to know you kinda thing. For my current job I had like 4 casual interviews and it was a blessing in disguise. I applied for a role that I was pretty tired of but had the most experience in. Without letting me know the first interviewers recognized that I had some skills that would fit well with a different position that wasn’t advertised on their homepage yet. In the end I was offered a job for the latter!
I know this is anecdotal and probably not how it usually goes. I also agree that 6-7 interviews is probably overkill. But multiple interviews aren’t always a bad thing.
Pity. I hear they have an opening for CEO, with perks.
Really? How would this have impacted you as an employee? And how do you know the other companies are different?
A ceo that’s fucking his employees is probally fucking his employees.
It also makes working for the company a punch line on your resume.
“Ohh, you worked for Astronomy? Wasn’t that the company where the CEO got cuaght fucking around at a Coldplay concert?”
The above may be a good or bad ice breaker at future interviews, but its still something you may have to deal with.
There’s an expression “fish rots from the head down”, meaning when the leadership of an organization is bad, the whole thing starts to stink. In this case, the CEO was having an affair with the head of HR, and was so unsubtle about it that he was caught like this at a public event. So, either the rest of the execs are completely unaware of what’s happening around them, which isn’t good. Or, they’re aware and did nothing about it, which is also bad.
Sure, this may be happening at plenty of other companies, but those CEOs have at least managed to avoid getting caught. Why work for the one company you know is troubled like this?
They were there with a group of coworkers, apparently this was some sort of open secret amongst some of the staff.
to be honest I buried the lede. I withdrew largely due to the long interview process. I had ghosted or left them on read for a week but the viral news reminded me.
Thinking how it would impact me directly? Probably not much. But this is a small company. If leadership is this sloppy at covering up extra marital affairs. How bad is it on the inside?
Shitty leadership in my experience often correlates with awful company culture.
Stock goes down, they lay people off to make it go up. And they will be without a CEO for a while. The fill in person probably will be at a disadvantage in deal negotiations because the topic of conversation will be the affair, not whatever product they are offering. That will also hurt the companies future prospects and stock price.
Stock goes down,
Why?
they lay people off to make it go up
This. Is. Not. How. It. Works.
And they will be without a CEO for a while
Substantial costs savings.
The fill in person probably will be at a disadvantage in deal negotiations because the topic of conversation will be the affair,
This is one of the wildest assumptions I have seen for a while.
That will also hurt the companies future prospects and stock price.
How?
Stocks often go up in the short term after layoff because of the substantial cost savings. Companies usually tie them to a change in direction to some new market that shows promise. In reality, they are getting rid of higher paid people that they will replace with lower paid people. So that will increase profits which tends to lift the stock price. If they are laying off due to poor business prospects for the future, that would lower the stock price. So it all in how they spin it, and in how the market for thier product is doing.
As for the rest, you don’t seem to know what a CEO of a small company does. This is a sub 500 person company. The CEO does a ton of networking to help get customers. And bigger companies will expect to be talking to the CEO, not a subordinate. So respect and clout are critical. Big company CEOs operate differently.
Take it and milk it.
Source: OE.
…meanwhile. Elon Musk out here handing out vials of cum at parties. What a cool guy.
Maybe we need to reign in the upper class a bit.
Hey, yeah, Epstein! I know about that guy! I read about EPSTEIN in the papers and shit!
That’s who we were talking about right?
Nah, but he needs to resign for similar reasons as OP’s subject POS.
I think the best joke I’ve seen about this so far has been
“Coldplay hasn’t put out a single in years, but in one night they made 2”
4 actually
This story is being promoted in the media to distract from trump being a child rapist
sure, but like there can be more than one thing happening.
Exactly. He can rape little girls AND women.
Also he can do all that raping AND also beat his ex wife because she was the one who suggested the doctor that did his hair transplant which then became painful (according to the court case that got paid off).
Furthermore he can do all that raping and beating and paying off of victims AND also bankrupt many casinos!
That dude is a multi tasker if I ever did see one.Yea it’s just obv promoted. Like what even is that completely irrelevant nonsense company
Never underestimate how much of the media and society love to see schadenfreude. It’s basically escapism from the daily onslaught of terrible news all the time.
No, this absolute teen goss bullshit was pushed HARD on the public specifically to distract from the Epstein shit. They saw anything and it went fucking VIRAL.
Get your head out of your fucking asshole, this was pushed, nothing about this ridiculous nonsense would have made a single wave two months ago.
For fuck’s sakes.
If they had just made out like everyone else does, nobody would have cared who they were. It wouldn’t have gone viral. Wife still might have found out about it, but I don’t think that would have changed much.
Yeah, it’s textbook Trump (formerly Streisand) Effect.
Who is this referencing?
That’s James Hetfield of Metallica embracing Dave Mustaine formerly of Metallica and frontman for Megadeth
Is that them mocking it or is it an old pic?
Given their history, I am going to say the image is not real.
Lmao. I’d seen the photo floating around, but didn’t know the story behind it
Me too. Just realizing everything now.
Big mistake. You always play it cool. If the police catch you getting your dick sucked, just play it cool. They won’t suspect a thing.
Just say it wasn’t you
But I saw you in the bathroom.
Wasn’t me
🎶I even caught you on camera!🎶
You can’t use past tense when they’re looking right at you.
