Co-founder Pete DeJoy, who assumed the role of interim CEO following Byron's resignation, commented on the controversies in a July 21 LinkedIn post titled "Moving Forward at Astronomer."

A US tech company's chief people officer who was apparently caught on a big screen at a Coldplay concert embracing the company's CEO has resigned.

If there’s a lesson from so-called Coldplaygate, it’s the extent to which, during the past decade or so of digital culture, going viral has gone from being an aspirational goal to a form of punishmen...