Astronomer Breaks Silence
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The Jumbotron Moment Heard ‘round the World blew up at such an incendiary level, on a bustling news day, for many reasons. The clumsy, deeply human way that the CEO and his employee seemed to realize they were suddenly visible, and then struggled to teleport out of sight, is almost objectively funny.
It’s horrible because she is the head of HR! She’s involved in an extramarital affair with the CEO. Basically, how much worse of an HR faux pas could you commit?” Cafaro told The Post.
Polymarket traders have bet more than $200,000 on Andy Byron being out as Astronomer CEO by next Friday. 44% of the traders think he won't survive the episode.
The businessman was thrown into the spotlight after being caught holding a colleague in a seemingly romantic embrace at a July 2025 Coldplay concert. Learn about Andy here.
So far, none of those investors have commented on the uproar over the viral video showing Byron and Astronomer’s HR chief Kristin Cabot scrambling to get off camera.
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Social media users believe Stoddard is the red-faced woman seen grimacing as Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot ran from the jumbotron cameras at the concert.
Coldplay concert footage showed the Astronomer CEO hugging Kristin Cabot, his company's chief people officer, from behind on Wednesday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Astronomer is a private data infrastructure startup that achieved "unicorn" status in 2022 with a $1 billion or more valuation.
Amid the Coldplay concert ‘cheating’ scandal, questions around Astronomer HR head Kristin Cabot’s marital status have taken over the internet. While some identified her husband as Kenneth C. Thornby,