'Strange 24 hours': Ireland's Andy Byron, namesake of Coldplay viral CEO, says he had to buy his wife flowers
Ireland's Andy Byron who had to change his LinkedIn bio to 'NOT THE GUY FROM THE COLDPLAY GIG' said he had a strange 24 hours as people from all over the world flocked to his LinkedIn profile to slam him after Astronomer CEO (now former) Andy Byron was caught in the embrace of the company's chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert in Boston.
When people discovered Ireland's Andy Byron on LinkedIn, Astronomer's Andy Byron already deactivated his LinkedIn profile, and his namesake had to absorb all the hatred.
Ireland's Any Byron told The Sun said he started receiving messages from strangers asking him casually on LinkedIn whether he enjoyed the Coldplay concert. 'Then I started getting strangers from LinkedIn messaging 'saying you got caught out bad' and how ashamed I should be - a lot of people on a moral high horse," he said.
'The actual Andy took his LinkedIn page down so everyone started messaging me - it got so bad that I had to turn all my notifications off.'
Ireland's Andy Byron said he had to remove his creative director job title from his LinkedIn so that people do not make the mistake. 'It made a good excuse to buy her flowers," Andy told, asserting that he was not cheating on his wife.
He explained how he went on to cash in on the traction that he got and spoke about himself.
'No, this isn't me. I wouldn't be caught dead at a Coldplay concert... I'm the Andy Byron who makes videos for big screens, not the one who gets caught on them. If you want to make video content that goes viral for the right reasons, let's connect [laughing emoji]' he wrote a post that reached 10,000 likes on LinkedIn.
'It's a coincidence that turned into great marketing for me. One guy from the US with the same name goes viral and I get a load of followers for my business. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If my engagements are like this, I can't imagine what it must be like for them, I'm sure him and the woman he's with are going through hell. If they had just played it off [the kiss cam], I'm sure they would have been fine. But I do have empathy for the families involved," the namesake added.
Both CEO Byron and HR chief Kristin Cabot were put on leave and and Astronomer cofounder and chief product officer Pete DeJoy is serving as the interim CEO.
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