A Brooklynite is taking over AI firm Astronomer amid the company’s viral cheating fiasco.
Pete DeJoy, the company’s cofounder, is taking over for former CEO Andy Byron as Astronomer looks into his alleged affair that was revealed by the Jumbotron at a Coldplay concert Wednesday night.
DeJoy previously served as Astronomer’s Chief Product Officer, the company said.
Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot got cozy at the Coldplay concert. Grace Springer via StoryfulByron has been placed on leave along with Kristin Cabot, the HR chief he was caught canoodling with on the “kiss cam.”
Byron resigned by Saturday afternoon, the company said in a statement.
According to his LinkedIn, DeJoy was a key member of the team that built the data company back in 2017, fresh out of college.
“Did whatever it took to bring the first incarnations of our commercial offerings to market and build our business,” he wrote in his career history section.
He was promoted to Senior Vice President back in 2023 before he was boosted to Chief Product Officer in February.
Pete DeJoy is Astronomer’s founder.
DeJoy started Astronomer right after graduating from Bowdoin College, a liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, that comes with a $64,910 tuition price tag.
Meanwhile, another Astronomer cofounder who passed the reins to Byron years before the scandal torpedoed the company’s reputation revealed his thoughts on the fiasco, calling it “unfortunate.”
Ry Walker, who now heads the automating AI tool company Tembo, said he was shocked by the extramarital canoodling captured on the Coldplay concert Jumbotron.
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“I’ve found Andy to be professional, I’ve only ever been on a call with him once. Everyone on the team has praised his leadership to me,” Walker wrote on X Friday.
“So I think this is an unfortunate development that comes as a big surprise.”
Walker identified himself as a co-founder and early CEO of Astronomer from 2015 to 2019, and remained on the board until finally leaving in 2022 to work for Tembo.
Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya
