The boss of an American company resigned on Saturday July 19, while the Internet has been igniting for several days about a video taken at a concert by Coldplay showing him embedded one of his colleagues – a flagrant offense of infidelity, according to Internet users.
While Chris Martin, singer of the Coldplay group, was preparing to start a new song during a concert given Wednesday evening in the Massachusetts, the random camera filming the spectators stopped on an entwined couple which, realizing that it was filmed and visible on the big screen, immediately separated and hidden in a movement of panic. “Either they have an affair, or they are very shy”then commented Chris Martin, amused.
Very quickly, the images flood social networks and internet users investigate the couple’s identity. The video man, Andy Byron, married, is at the head of a New York start-up-Astronomer-, and Kristin Cabot, the woman, is not his wife, but the director of human resources of the company.
An internal open investigation
“Our leaders are supposed to set standards in terms of conduct and responsibility, and recently these standards have not been met”said the company in a statement published on Saturday on LinkedIn, announcing the resignation of its boss.
According to the media Business Insiderthe name “Byron” has been sought more than 2 million times on Google in twenty-four hours. Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot were suspended while investigating, Astronomer also announced.
The company said “Getting to respect the values and culture that have guided it since its creation”, “Andy Byron presented his resignation and the board of directors accepted it”can be read in the press release. Astronomer, co -founded by Andy Byron, is valued at more than $ 1 billion and added to Linkedin that, “If the notoriety of our company has changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not changed”.
