Astronomer CEO resigns after Coldplay Concert Scandal | Techcrunch

Andy Byron, the Startup -Executive in the center of an extraordinary furore for social media, has resigned as CEO of Data -Operations Startup Astronomer.

Byron, who is married, was captured on a coldplay concert “Kiss Cam” with his arms around the Chief People officer Kristin Cabot of the company. After Byron and Cabot quickly tried to hide in front of the camera, Coldplay singer Chris Martin joked: “Or they have an affair or they are just very shy.”

Video of the uncomfortable incident quickly went spectacular viral – Axios, stating Muck Rack data, reported On Friday, 22,000 news articles were published about the startup during the previous 24 hours, including 9,000 about Byron itself. (Amidst the many jokes and memes, 404 Media Quarrel that the incident is “emblematic for our surveillance dystopia on social media.”)

Astronomer, who announced in May that it had collected a series D of $ 93 millionsaid Friday that Byron was placed on leaveWith co -founder and chief product officer Pete DeJoy Interim CEO. Cabot has Allegedly placed on leave placed also.

Now the company has released A longer statement Announcement that Byron has resigned.

“Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both behavior and accountability, and recently that standard is not met,” Astronomer said.

“Before this week we were known as a pioneer in the dataops space, so that data teams help everything to create everything from modern analyzes to production AI,” the company added. “Although the awareness of our company has changed from one day to the next, our product and our work for our customers did not do that.”

DeJoy will continue to serve as an interim -CEO while the board is looking for a permanent replacement.