Posted on 07/17/2025 1:04:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Did you know that Coldplay’s current live show has a whole kiss-cam segment, like an NBA game? During Coldplay’s live show, stadium screens apparently show unsuspecting couples in the crowd, and then Chris Martin urges them to kiss. I didn’t know that. Neither, apparently, did Andy Byron, CEO of the tech platform Astronomer, which is reportedly valued at $1.3 billion. At a recent Coldplay gig in Boston, Coldplay’s kiss-cam caught Byron all snuggled up with a woman who is not his wife, and that video quickly went viral.
Earlier this week, Coldplay ployed a pair of shows at Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium, home of the Patriots. As The Sun reports, the band’s kiss-cam captured an image of Astronomer CEO Andy Byron, who is married, and the company’s HR chief Kristin Cabot, who is not his wife. Upon realizing that they were on camera, Cabot covered her face and then turned her back to the camera, while Byron visibly panicked and then ducked down offscreen. Chris Martin’s narration of the moment was pretty funny: “Ooooh, look at these two! All right, come on, you’re OK! Oh, what? Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” Who knows! Could be both! Enjoy the spectacle of their humiliation below.
I bet this guy thought he was pretty smart. I bet he was like, “Nobody will report it to HR if I’m having an affair with the HR lady!” Little did he know.
The smiling woman in the video is reportedly one of Cabot’s direct reports (who was promoted last week). And this morning Byron’s wife apparently dropped his last name from her Facebook profile.
Scott Lapatine in Stereogum Slack: “This Coldplay thing is an unconscious coupling.”
I never heard of Coldplay until yesterday.
Oh I live in the other direction.
Looking into the history of the HR lady, She was married to a fellow that ran a sportwear or sporting goods company. That fellow was being sued by the bank probably for a loan default on a property with other leins on it, including IRS, so he probably had run into financial trouble. She divorced him in 2922.
In 2020 she started working as a “consultant” for a company called “Privateer Rum”. She married that owner recently, and they bought a million dollar house in Rye NH.
Then last year she started working for Astronomer, and rose quickly though the ranks.
She seems to like CEOs, and moves up every time.
She divorced the first guy in 2022.
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