Astronomer just tapped a new interim CEO ... and he’s already breaking his silence on the Coldplay cheating scandal. His message? The company’s been through storms before, and this one’s no different -- they’ll bounce back, business as usual!
00:00Coldplay and the continued fallout from that Coldplay concert, and of course, you know, the astronomer CEO, Andy Byron, was caught on the jumbotron with the head of HR at his company.
00:13He is no longer part of that company. Over the weekend, Andy Byron filed his notice, he resigned from his post as CEO of that company.
00:23Unfortunately, this morning, the company, the new CEO, the acting CEO, put out a whole message where he is trying to make it clear to investors in the company, we're okay, that we still have our values.
00:37Andy Byron is gone now, but we still don't know what's going to happen with Kristen Cabot, but we want to show you this video because before he resigned, we actually got this angle of the video.
00:49This is shot from behind Andy and Kristen, and you can see at points in this video where they are clearly very, very cozy.
01:00This is insane. I mean, this is just the story that keeps on giving.
01:04So some people thought like, oh, maybe it was just a cuddle or maybe he was just swaying with her.
01:09So this is them right there. So I think whoever was taking video of this concert had no idea these people were going to be famous.
01:15So you see them kissing, they're swaying together, having a good old time.
01:23So it's very clear from that video, they were close.
01:26Well, I mean, clearly they were together.
01:28This wasn't a first date, is what I'm saying.
01:30So Astronomer, now he has tendered his resignation. They accepted it, and that was almost an inevitability.
01:37Right. And everything the company was saying about, look, this is not even so much about, by the way, the thing that Astronomer put out today, they said, we're a small firm.
01:47It is a small AI firm. They're not used to this level of attention. They don't know how to handle it.
01:54But right now, they're really just concerned about their investors.
01:57Right.
01:58They're concerned about their customers.
02:00And also, and not just the investors, but the staff.
02:03Because here you've got the CEO allegedly hooking up with the HR chief.
02:10I don't think we have to say allegedly anymore.
02:11Well, with the HR chief.
02:14We still don't know what's happening.
02:15We don't know what's happened to her.
02:16Now, she is a junior person under him, so if it were, you know, somebody else.
02:24They're not going to fire her.
02:26But here's the thing.
02:27Because she's HR, that makes a difference.
02:30Right.
02:30And I think that's where we just don't know what's going to happen there.
02:34Right.
02:35Here's the thing.
02:37Coldplay is having a moment.
02:40I mean, I hate to say this.
02:42Coldplay is getting more attention than they've had in a long, long time.
02:46But, by the way, I'm not saying that they're not popular.
02:49They clearly are selling out stadiums still, so they're popular.
02:52What band are they talking about?
02:54Everybody's talking about Coldplay right now.
02:57Yeah, and they just, so the concert that they had after this big one with Astronomer,
03:02they had somebody in the audience was holding up a sign.
03:07It was like a woman, and she was with her husband.
03:09And she goes, not my CEO, with like an arrow pointing to him.
03:13The jokes are rolling, you guys.
03:15They've been at every sporting event, every public gathering.
03:19People have made a reference to being caught on a jumbotron.
03:23They did it at, I saw it at three different sporting events, at least this weekend.
03:27Morgan Wallen did it.
03:27Morgan Wallen, this is hilarious, you guys.
03:29Look at this.
03:30With their side chick or whatever.
03:35I think, I think you're safe here.
03:40I don't condone cheating anymore.
03:49Anymore.
03:49Now, here's the funniest thing.
03:51You know that at every concert now, this is going to become a thing on the Kiss Cam that
03:56people are going to duck and run every time.
03:59When they start doing the Kiss Cam thing, if you have something to hide, go to the bathroom.
04:02But they're going to, everybody's just going to do it.
04:05Even like husbands and wives and whatnot, they're all going to just do it.
04:08Which, by the way, is great cover for the people who are actually having an affair.
04:12Because everybody's going to do it now.
04:14Hi, my name's Anique.
04:16I'm from New York.
04:17I honestly feel like he did the right thing by stepping down.
04:22He didn't have a choice.
04:23And due to the embarrassment from coworkers and his family, you know, like it's a lot.
