{"id":295884,"date":"2025-07-27T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295884\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T12:45:12","slug":"astronomers-clever-pr-move-embracing-ceo-scandal-featuring-gwyneth-paltrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/295884\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer’s ‘clever’ PR move embracing CEO scandal – featuring Gwyneth Paltrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interest in Astronomer, which describes itself as “the best place to run Apache Airflow” – a product not developed by Astronomer – increased hugely since the clip of its former CEO went viral, with some unverified reports suggesting a spike of 15,000% in visits to the company’s website. <\/p>\n

The company was founded in 2018, and provides services for companies that want to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI). <\/p>\n

Astronomer says it has worked with Apple, Ford and Uber, the Wall Street Journal reports. , external<\/a><\/p>\n

Pete DeJoy, co-founder and chief product officer has been appointed as the company’s interim CEO, and can at least see a positive to all the attention on his company. <\/p>\n

“The spotlight has been unusual and surreal for our team and, while I would never have wished for it to happen like this, Astronomer is now a household name,” he wrote on LinkedIn. <\/p>\n

The only previous statement the company had made was on X, two days after the Coldplay concert. <\/p>\n

“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” it said, while announcing a formal investigation had been launched. <\/p>\n

Seeing the moment Byron and Cabot hid from the camera from his position on stage, Coldplay’s Chris Martin said: “Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy.”<\/p>\n

And if you’re wondering what kind of PR impact this had on Paltrow’s famous ex-husband and his band, Greenaway thinks it’s neutral. <\/p>\n

“I don’t think it increases awareness of them… the public at large have one thing in their head, and that’s the Kiss Cam video. That drowns out all the other stuff.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interest in Astronomer, which describes itself as “the best place to run Apache Airflow” – a product not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-295884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}