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Former Andy Byron Employer Speaks Out!
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Jul 19, 2025
Former Andy Byron Employer Speaks Out!
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This man says he's a former employee of
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Andy Byron, the man who was caught
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having an affair with the head of his HR
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department at a Coldplay concert. And
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this guy's story is why this affair is
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more than just an affair. Listen to what
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he has to say.
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If you think his marriage is the only
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thing that Andy Byron ran into the
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ground, then I've got a funny story
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about karma for you. Before being
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astronomer CEO, Andy Byron was also
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chief revenue officer of a different
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software company where he hired a lot of
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hardworking great people with high hopes
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for their careers by promising them the
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opportunity of a lifetime that would
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completely change their future, solve
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any financial worries their family or
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children might ever have. I also had the
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questionable privilege of being
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interviewed and hired by him. As you can
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imagine, he's very persuasive
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considering he managed to convince his
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own chief people officer to go to a
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public concert while they were having an
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affair. He also convinced me and a lot
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of my former colleagues to join him in
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that company. He convinced investors to
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invest almost $2 billion. Myself and
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countless other employees invested their
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savings into employee stock options. And
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in a tale as old as capitalism itself,
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when the company went bust and was sold
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off for pennies on the dollar, him and
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other top level executives left with
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golden parachutes worth millions of
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dollars while low-level employees like
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myself and many of my colleagues lost
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tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands
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of dollars of their own savings. Two
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lessons out of this. If somebody
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promises a no-brainer opportunity of a
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lifetime, be very skeptical. And if you
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badly treat and take advantage of
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people, karma will at some point get
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you.
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And sometimes that karma is called Chris
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Martin of Coldplay. Viva La Vida.
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And this is why I keep sharing this
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because this is more than just an
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affair. This is something that has been
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building for years. You have to think
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about it. the corruption of this. The
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head of a billiondoll company has the HR
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department in his back pocket, which
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means he can do whatever he wants, and
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he can get rid of people however he
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wants, even if it's unjustified.
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There's a lot of companies, a lot of
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investors, a lot of employees
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that are relying on this man Andy.
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Yet, he's brazen enough
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to go to a Coldplay concert and not care
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who sees him.
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That's why this is such a big story.
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It's the HR department and the CEO
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essentially telling all of their
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employees, "Do as I say, not as I do.