Caught hugging a colleague at a Coldplay concert, the boss of an American company resigns

The boss of an American company resigned on Saturday, July 19, as the internet has been abuzz for several days over a video taken at a Coldplay concert showing him hugging one of his colleagues – a blatant act of infidelity, according to internet users.

As Coldplay frontman Chris Martin was about to start a new song at a concert Wednesday night in Massachusetts, the random camera filming the audience stopped on an embracing couple who, upon realizing they were being filmed and visible on the big screen, immediately broke away and hid in a panic. "Either they're having an affair or they're very shy," Martin commented, amused.

The images quickly flooded social media, and internet users began investigating the couple's identity. The man in the video, Andy Byron, who is married, is the head of a New York startup called Astronomer, and Kristin Cabot, the woman, is not his wife, but the company's human resources director.

"Our leaders are supposed to set standards for conduct and accountability, and recently those standards have not been met," the company said in a statement posted on LinkedIn Saturday, announcing its boss's resignation.

According to Business Insider , the name "Byron" was searched for more than 2 million times on Google in 24 hours. Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot have been suspended while an investigation is conducted, Astronomer also reported.

The company said it is "committed to the values and culture that have guided it since its inception," and "Andy Byron has submitted his resignation and the board has accepted it," the statement read. Astronomer, co-founded by Andy Byron, is valued at more than $1 billion and added on LinkedIn that, "while the brand awareness of our company has changed overnight, our product and the work we do for our customers have not."