Astronomer HR head Kristin Cabot has also resigned after Coldplay cheating video


Chief People Office Kristin Cabot has finally resigned from tech company Astronomer (a unicorn!). The official exit comes days after CEO Andy Byron resigned, and a week after the pair of them, each married to other people, were caught on the kiss cam at a concert. They were watching Coldplay, where presumably they thought they’d be safe from attention or recognition of any kind. Instead, they went viral. Though the camera didn’t catch them actually kissing, their obvious knee-jerk reaction to hide ended up giving the game away.

Days after Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigned from the tech startup, the HR exec who was with him at the infamous Coldplay concert has left as well.

“Kristin Cabot is no longer with Astronomer, she has resigned,” a company spokesperson wrote in an email to CNBC Thursday. Cabot was the company’s chief people officer.

Cabot and Byron, who is married with children, were shown in an intimate moment on the ‘kiss cam’ at a recent Coldplay show in Boston, and immediately hid when they saw their faces on the big screen. Lead singer Chris Martin said, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re just very shy.” An attendee’s video of the incident went viral.

Byron resigned from the company on Saturday. Both Cabot and Byron have been removed from the company’s leadership team webpage.

Pete DeJoy, Astronomer’s CEO, wrote in a post earlier this week that recent and unexpected national attention has turned the company into “a household name.”

In May, the New York-based company, which commercializes open source software, announced a $93 million investment round led by Bain Ventures and other investors, including Salesforce Ventures.

[From CNBC]

Before you start feeling too badly for Kristin getting booted out of a job (thanks to her own actions), I invite you to take a look at these pap shots from the Daily Mail of Kristin watering the garden of her stately, $2 million second home in New Hampshire that she bought this year with the man she’s still married to. I can’t believe it’s only been one week of Kiss Cam Gate™! Feels longer. Anyway, I think now is the time to leave these families to sort themselves out; that’s private and for them. The feeling of being swept up in a cultural moment, however, belongs to all of us. There’s for sure a movie to be made, here! It doesn’t even have to be about the couple. I’m thinking some Rashomon-style piece in which the kiss cam is the inciting incident around which we follow an ensemble of characters. So really the film is about all these other (fictional) people; snapshots of their lives, and then all vignettes are united through these disparate stories being intersected by one viral moment. Though I think this pic would easily be at home with A24, I am open to receiving offers from other studios as well. Except for Paramount.

photos credit: via Backgrid and Astronomer

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13 Responses to “Astronomer HR head Kristin Cabot has also resigned after Coldplay cheating video”

  1. Blogger says:

    Isn’t her current husband related to the Boston Brahmin Cabots?

    Anyhoo, maybe she and her lover can set up their own start-up. Seems they were in the early stages of it or they’d have been more laidback about it.

    Overall, not a very discreet way to reveal the affair. Especially if it was a one-nighter.

    • DaveW says:

      Yup, he’s a direct descendant of the original Brahmin Cabot’s who, according to a long ago poet, wrote “And this is good old Boston/ The home of the bean and the cod/ Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots/ And the Cabots talk only to God.”

  2. Who were these people says:

    One of the many dumb things about this is that in public he was copping a feel.

    • Libra says:

      Yes he was. Hands over breast area. Lots of men have ” work wives” but use some common sense and discretion. To go out in public was stupid for both of them.

      • orangeowl says:

        So gross. And If they had just laughed or not moved, the camera would have moved on and no one would have known anything, instead they acted like they had been broadcast to a worldwide audience. Idiots.

      • Tarte Au Citron says:

        And he couldn’t have dropped her fast enough when they were on camera! 😄

    • Call_Me_AL says:

      Yeah, the cupping breasts from behind in public was so adolescent. Well, Kismet, thanks for your hilarious coverage of this ridiculous story!

  3. Giddy says:

    “Honey, I have an important business meeting this weekend. I’ll have my phone off during the executive session.”

  4. SIde Eye says:

    I think the movie is about Andy Byron’s soon to be ex-wife. Her statement was absolute fire!

  5. BeanieBean says:

    I’d see that movie, definitely!

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