When Chris Martin joked that two camera-shirking Coldplay concertgoers might be having an affair, he had no idea his shoutout would put now-former Astronomer CEO Andy Byron on the hot seat.

Astronomer’s interim CEO addressed the controversy surrounding the company when the former CEO was caught cuddling with the company’s head of HR at a Coldplay concert last week. “The events of the past few days have received a level of media attention that few companies—let alone startups in our small corner of the data and AI world—ever encounter,

A Coldplay concert moment has gone viral, leading to the resignation of a tech CEO. During a performance at Gillette Stadium on Wednesday, cameras captured a couple cuddling on the big screen.

Pete DeJoy became the interim CEO of Astronomer after Andy Byron resigned following an embarrassing episode at a Coldplay concert.