EMERGENCY EPISODE! The Astronomer CEO scandal and other messy executives
Corporate Gossip
Becca Platsky
4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The CEO of tech company Astronomer was caught at a Coldplay concert canoodling with the head of HR in a video that has since gone mega-viral. And SUDDENLY everyone is interested in what I thought was a niche topic - CEOs behaving badly!!
In this emergency episode, I review the latest in the Astronomer scandal and recap my favorite executive cheating scandals that we've covered on the podcast.
Correction: In an earlier version of this epiosde, I said Friends and ER were on CBS. They were not, they were on NBC. I also said Rupert Murdoch's wife was "Jerry Halloway" not "Jerry Hall." That's because I'm a millenial and I'm always thinking about the Spice Girls.
Timestamps:
00:00 Astronomer
07:25 - Kevin Plank (Under Armour)
13:30 - Sergey Brin (Google)
20:00 - Les Moonves (CBS)
24:30 - SBF (FTX)
26:00 - Jack Welch (GE)
27:20 - Rupert Murdoch (NewsCorp / Fox News)
I also touch on Dov Charney (American Apparel), Eddie Antar (Crazy Eddie), The Insys Sales Reps, and Vince McMahon (WWE)
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| 0:00.0 | It's like all of a sudden, everybody is really excited about my niche interest of CEOs |
| 0:07.2 | behaving badly, specifically in their personal lives. Hi, guys. Welcome to an emergency |
| 0:13.9 | episode of the Corporate Gossip podcast. I'm your host, CPA scorned Becca Platsky. It's |
| 0:18.9 | just me today. Because like I said, this is an emergency |
| 0:21.4 | episode. You might have already seen. There's a video that has been going mega viral from a |
| 0:26.8 | Coldplay concert earlier this week. And in the Coldplay concert, the band kind of scans up, |
| 0:33.2 | kind of like a kiss cam to couples. And one of the couples that they show is in what seems like a box seat, |
| 0:39.9 | somewhere high above the stadium and they're kind of in an embrace. And then once the couple |
| 0:44.3 | registers that they are on camera, the man like, I mean, jumps out of frame as fast as possible |
| 0:51.7 | and the woman turns around. like they immediately get out of |
| 0:54.2 | their embrace and chris martin says you know either they're having an affair or they're really shy well it |
| 0:59.6 | has since come out that they were the man is married he is the CEO of a company called astronomer |
| 1:06.1 | his name is andy byron and the woman was the head of. I don't have her name in front of me of that |
| 1:13.6 | company. This video was sent to me so many times and people on TikTok and Patreon and email are like, |
| 1:19.1 | please, can you do an emergency episode about this right now? And I got to be honest with you guys, |
| 1:23.4 | I am surprised this is such a scandal because in my world, this happens all the time. |
| 1:32.8 | So here's what I want to do. |
| 1:34.9 | I'm going to briefly tell you all the news that I know so far about the scandal, get you up to speed. |
| 1:42.0 | And then, guys, if you like that, heck, I've compiled |
| 1:48.0 | all of the cheating scandals that we have ever talked about on the corporate gossip podcast |
| 1:52.5 | over our 30 some odd episodes that we've done on different companies. And so I'll give you a |
| 1:58.7 | little treat. We can talk about all of them. Before I get into all that, I do want to also use this opportunity to announce that we are coming back with new episodes. I guess this is technically season six of the corporate gossip podcast on August 1st. Just for listeners of this episode, you get a little sneak peek. The first couple episodes, I'm not sure what order they're going to be, but we're going to cover match.com, Johnson and Johnson. |
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