{"id":22639,"date":"2025-07-20T00:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22639\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:33:09","slug":"us-tech-ceo-in-viral-coldplay-concert-video-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/22639\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech CEO in viral Coldplay concert video resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The CEO of an American tech company resigned Saturday after a video of him embracing an alleged colleague at a Coldplay concert went viral and fuelled relentless memes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cOur leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met,\u201d New York-based Astronomer said in a statement shared on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAndy Byron has tendered his resignation,\u201d the firm said, after previously launching an investigation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During a Coldplay concert in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Wednesday, the jumbotron zoomed in on a man and a woman embracing in the stands.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">But the canoodling pair appeared shocked and horrified when they spotted themselves on the big screen, with the man ducking out of frame and the woman hiding her face.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cUh-oh, what? Either they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy,\u201d joked Coldplay frontman Chris Martin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CEO of an American tech company resigned Saturday after a video of him embracing an alleged colleague&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,15785,15789,15784,15786,16928,20390,15787,4466,2001,2005,3,480,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-22639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-andy-byron","tag-astronomer","tag-chris-martin","tag-coldplay","tag-coldplay-concert","tag-foxborough","tag-kristin-cabot","tag-linkedin","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}