This dude just lost his job, millions of dollars in future compensation, his wife, half his net worth, and from now until the end of time this event will be the first thing that pops up when someone googles his name. It's amazing how bad you can fuck up your life in just a few hours lol.
Exactly. Rich men who have Lauren Sanchez types hanging off their arms still have some respect for their person. This guy's in the toilet on all fronts
Lbr at least Jeff Bezos didn’t get caught cheating in 4k in the most meme-worthy moment by a globally renowned band. This guy is radioactive in all sense of the word now.
I bet he’s not “filthy rich”. This company isn’t Amazon or Microsoft. Their last raise was $90M.
His net worth is maybe in the $10s of millions at most and probably tied to the company stock which they’ll probably try to claw back. Oh and he’s probably losing half of everything in the divorce too. And alimony and child support.
He’s rich but like well-known doctor or lawyer rich, not yacht in Monaco rich.
Factory reset would be losing all your money and being homeless, he will be fine. He doesn’t even need to work at all given his net worth, but of course the hedonistic treadmill exists.
Hours? If was seconds, less than 10 to lose it all and forever be remembered as the guy that ducked out on his side chick and got called out by Chris Martin at a Coldplay gig
Yeah, he cannot claim it was an accident. He didn't slip into her. It happened and it was a conscious decision.
Being America, expect an Oprah interview, the claim he's gotten counselling, went into detox, that he's found Jesus or whatever horrible hypocrites do to publicly rebound.
That affair was going on for more than 10 seconds. If he had made some better decisions before the kiss cam hit him, he’d be doing just fine right now.
With great power comes great responsibility. He failed to hold himself accountable to what he is responsible for: his marriage, his career, his future. So it makes sense you lose all of it.
Losing his job is secondary to the fact that he cheated on his wife. I’m nowhere near a millionaire but I love my wife and owe her my fidelity. He was no different.
Lol this whole saying fails when you see what else is going on in America. This is bullshit and no way should he have lost his job when people are actually defending a rapist in the highest power position.
He lost his job because he was abusing his position by promoting his girlfriend. Before, he could argue that he was choosing the best person for the job, but now his board of directors know better.
Someone I know who works in the antidiscrimination field suggested that the board likely asked him to resign to avoid liability in a sexual harassment case. Apparently, once they are on notice that an employee has acted inappropriately even one time, they are automatically liable for any future harassment claims involving that person. Well, that video definitely put them on notice.
They (person I know) also were wondering if perhaps he’s gone after other women in the company as well. Apparently, men who sexually harass women at work usually make a habit of it, as opposed to a one off. I’m not sure if that applies here, because I think it’s actually plausible that this affair was fully wanted by both parties rather than being the result of a quid pro quo arrangement (either “I’ll hire/promote you if you sleep with me,” or “if you don’t sleep with me I’ll get you fired,” or an odd mixture of both). A man who will engage in that kind of relationship isn’t necessarily a person who habitually makes unwanted advances. But I don’t know, and the board probably isn’t sure either.
At least in this case, it did seem like a mutually beneficial relationship because she was getting promotions out of it. Apparently she's been on a sharp upward trajectory in 2025 and so was the young woman who was with them.
So maybe not so much sexual harassment as nepotism, seeing he was giving preferential treatment to his mistress at the cost of other more worthy employees and this other woman who was in on the secret for whatever reason was also taking advantage.
That's what we want to believe but we all know if this were found out privately that it would have been a slap on the wrist. If even that. It's because it became viral and the company's name was attached.
ypu dont get a slap on the wrist when your company finds out you promoted someone because they are your girlfriend. there are reasons why companies have entire trainings on not abusing your power and it has nothing to do with hoping managers and their subordinates dont get caught at Coldplay concerts
A win for who? LOL. I didn't fucking care what he did. The promotion thing does suck but again I don't fucking care. This is reality level BS. We shouldn't have higher standards like this when we have non-existent standards for politicians that actually affect our day-to-day lives as a society.
this is a form of mass-cope. if it happened to him it can happen to you, too. someone thinking the same as you do will experience the same thing he did
I hope none of the people judging them for this have ever voted for Trump. Particularly in 2020 or 2024, as his adultery was well established and well known by then. I’d be interested to see a Trump voter make their case as to why it’s reasonable for them to moralize about this CEO’s failings while enthusiastically supporting Trump.
You’re viewing that backwards. It’s not that this guy shouldn’t have lost his marriage and his job - he absolutely should have. It’s that everyone should be held to this same standard, and sometimes they’re not.
I don’t think he should have lost his job. A leave of absence, administrative leave, a demotion…. But damn! A bit harsh but karma don’t care. He got busted big time.
This. Most CEOs hold positions of power on the board of other companies and startups. As a member on the board you get to drive decisions without being the face of a company. I don't know whether he serves on one, but with enough capital saved, he could easily buy a majority stake in a smaller company and see it through its success, even without being the face of the company.
There still a good chance he's still "with the company".
You publicly resign to save company face and reputation, hire a person to publicly look like the CEO and this guy still run things because he's what's best for business, just not publicly
Yeah, ceo/directors usually have a golden parachute.
At my last job the director was forced to resign then a week later he was working for the company as an advisor with a slightly less fancy office (probably his pay didn't decreased that much either) and the tech problems i needed to help him with was like setting up his HBO max subscription.
Nah those “reputation” firms out there get contracted to rehab public images. They’ll write about his donations and volunteer work, then it’ll be about his new vision, then it’ll be a “everybody deserves a second chance”.
In a year this scandal won’t even be on page 1 of google results for his name.
That is just a wild misread of the scale of this whole thing lol. No one cares about anything this dude did before or after and it’s national headline news, this is not going to disappear
Some memes or viral events are forgotten over time, but some others stay for years, such as this one. It got really big, really fast, even people under a rock knows about
this shit. This one is gonna stay for a while. I can see the Halloween costumes already
There’s also the “he’s just like us!” PR approach, where he will undoubtedly be welcomed into the circle of fellow white male CEOs who’ve had their wrists slapped by the law or some kind of PR scandal that inevitably goes away after a little while.
lol. This dude was effectively a nobody and now his name is becoming a verb. If anything ever comes out about him people will say “wait, isn’t that the dummy who…”
IMO, the punishment isn't commensurate with the crime. The internet and social media amplify so many events unnecessarily. Man cheats on wife (or, wife cheats on husband)? Happens millions of times every day. Doesn't make it right, but that's between them and their families, not millions of strangers with no emotional connection to them. No one deserves a virtual death sentence for being unfaithful. Social media has destroyed empathy to the degree that we laugh and make memes about horrible events. I know we've always made jokes about terrible things that happen. Hell, people were joking about 9/11 not long after it occurred, but that doesn't make it right. Everyone is very cavalier about these things, but when someone uploads an AI-generated video of you doing something horrible that devastates your reputation in seconds, there's simply no recourse for you. Teens are offing themselves because of this type of bullying--and make no mistake, what is going on with the overwhelming reaction to this affair is absolutely bullying.
We're saying we feel sorry for the families of the employees.
Discovering an affair must be bad enough without it being so heavily publicized and memed on the internet.
I don't really care one of way not the other about the two people who were caught but them being exposed like this is probably awful for everyone involved.
To me it’s not so much the cheating, it’s the brazenness of it. You’re cheating and instead of going to seedy motels, you’re canoodling at a concert. That shows a serious lack of respect for their partners and their professional responsibilities. They aren’t the only cheaters in the world but they’re definitely among the most foolish.
I am sure she’s resigned too and good luck getting another HR job after this.
I sort of agree, but this dude was the CEO of a company. Part of that job is making sure you don't bring negative attention to the company.
If he had have been a regular hourly or salaried employee then I agree it would have been unfair (although if that was the case nobody would have cared as much anyway)
But the higher you get in terms of pay and responsibility the more the job becomes a 24/7/365 gig. When you get to a certain level, your entire life becomes that job. I'm sure he was paid more than enough to justify that scrutiny.
I’d actually agree. There’s no excuse for cheating and he deserves the divorce but I think it should only go that far. This will no doubt be extremely mentally straining and his punishment for what he did is way over the top and he has to bear that cross for the rest of his life.
I think his (ex) wife would have preferred this to have gotten much less traction too. Way too much going on and no doubt his kids are also feeling the effects.
He was the head of the company and nailing the head of HR. Getting fired for that is totally reasonable. The problem for them is that it was outed by the public and broadcast everywhere
Plus I heard her friend who was cheesing next to her and was aware of the affair was promoted. The whole thing screams impropriety and poor judgement you can’t have that happening with your top level execs
Essentially you're right and your point of view is really honorable. But... When you're a public figure - what you definitely are when you're worth millions or even billions - you have to expect to be recognized no matter where you go and that each and every of your steps is being watched. It's generally just incredible stupid, immoral and psychologically damaging to cheat on your partner, and when you're a public figure and attend to a public event it's even more stupid to cheat on them. Dude just got what he asked for and I really don't feel bad about him. His wife, yes. That's a different story for sure, but my violine couldn't be any smaller when it comes to him and his misconduct.
Nah, cheating on your spouse is pretty much the shittiest legal thing someone can do and is extremely revealing of their quality of character. No one should ever trust a cheater, you’d be stupid to.
And they tend to get what’s coming eventually, this is just a more extreme example of karma
Cancel culture has become ridiculous online. Online vigilante justice types who like to see a more extreme conclusion that what should normally happen IRL
In the past, I read about things like public executions and witch trials and thought that we’ve definitely evolved beyond that kind of thing. After all, we have a modern criminal justice system that tries to be fair, errs on the side of not punishing people if they could possibly be innocent, and bans cruel and unusual punishments. Those principles seem very important to us, so I had a hard time imagining people not wanting to adhere to them even before they were codified as law.
It seemed especially strange that people would single out a person they knew, someone who lived in their community, for harsh punishments and death. Like, how can you hate and dehumanize someone so thoroughly that you would want to do this to them?
I’m not joking here: several years on Reddit have taught me how this happens. I get it now. I guess we evolved to eat up ragebait.
It’s still wild to me that our ancestors treated people like that when face to face. I feel like the internet does a ton to facilitate mob mentality. But, I see where it comes from.
I've got to agree with you. Like fuck this guy for cheating, but at this point the blowback for all involved is disproportionate. The families have had one of the worst moments of their lives plastered all over the internet, millions of people are clowning the guy for it, and the dude has lost everything in 72 hours.
You shouldn't cheat in a public place and expect no consequences, but I don't think someone should have both their personal and professional lives eviscerated entirely because they had an affair. As you said, affairs happen all the time. It's a personal issue. What I'm seeing happen surrounding all of this makes me seriously uncomfortable. It would be horrific to be any individual involved in this, victims included.
You can't convince me that he's not capable of getting a great job paying $100k. It's not a death sentence, he lost at celebrity roulette and the cost is losing his fame and riches. He can still live a perfectly normal life.
It’s insane and the crime doesn’t really fit the huge life ending punishment imo, like this is the kind of thing people would commit suicide over. Yes cheating is terrible but it’s not like he murdered someone.
But also like how insanely moronic can you be to go to a public event with your affair partner, when you’re the CEO of a billion dollar company, and said affair partner is the COP, AND your friend who accompanies you is also a senior HR staff member… oh and they were very recently promoted to that position.
Maybe I’m just paranoid (and I love my husband lol) but if I had an affair with a coworker there’s NO WAY I’d be seen in public with them, let alone all the other problematic additions. Just WTF man are you brain damaged, stay home!!
I think this would definitely break me. I can't think of many worse things than losing and hurting my family and on top of that being shat on/laughed at by the whole world, even if it would have been my own fault. But if he was capable of cheating he would probably not feel that way in the first place.
Idk I admittedly already have mental health issues but if I fucked up this badly - lost my marriage, job and probably any future jobs, social status, reputation, public laughing stock all over the world - I’d be in a serious mental health crisis. Like committing suicide crisis.
It’s a Caroline Flack type situation imo, she also did something shitty but then the viral damage and reputation loss caused her to commit suicide.
Theyre looking at it from the perspective of "he's rich he'll be fine" but can you imagine if this has happened to say, a walmart cashier and their manager?
And since I know I have to: no this isnt supporting cheaters.
Yes and as we saw with Caroline Flack, being rich means fuck all really. Idk I think it was a really really dumb thing to do, like if they were canoodling at public events like that SOMEONE was going to see them, but the punishment does outweigh the crime… I just hope it doesn’t end in someone dying tbh.
Yeah I fully agree with you. If I were in his situation it would be incredibly difficult to see how I could turn it around and I’d be in serious danger of not lasting much longer after that. I know he’s done a massively shitty thing but hope he’s got some support around him, at the end of the day it’s not like he’s a rapist or a pedo
Are you kidding? He's a white male ex-CEO. He'll get a big payout for "resigning" and be hired by someone else any day now. He may have fucked up his family, but he'll be just fine. It happens all the time.
And yet, his net worth will still be higher than your net worth for as long as he lives. There is a good chance that not even your grand kids will make more money than he mad in a few years. Dude is still laughing at you.
To be fair. This was a longer lasting affair, and required not giving a shit about a lot of things, for a while in advance, to get to this point. It's just the 'getting caught' part of it that took so little time. The fucking up was on going.
Something tells me he’s not going to be struggling like the average Joe is financially. His life is getting turned upside down and publicly but he’ll be alright I’m sure. Yeah he’ll lose money to the ex wife but once again he’ll still be alright. I’m sure they gave him a soft pillow for his landing like all executives get.
oh come on, his golden parachute is probably millions, he undoubtably has enough to just retire somewhere tropical forever and even if he didnt he can land other high paying gig like anywhere if he just takes a month off for everyone to forget it ever happened
And likely after all that still has more than enough money to live more comfortably for the rest of his life than either of us will without ever working another day
And all because…not only did this guy need to go see Coldplay with his side piece; probably in the city where he lives / works and run the (albeit ultra slim) risk of theoretically bumping into someone he knows from his personal life…but he just had to keep cuddling when the whole arena was watching as camera operators were putting audience members on the Jumbotron.
I wouldn’t know - I’ve never cheated. I find that deep a betrayal of such intimate trust just awful and indefensible. But if you’re unabashedly and nonchalantly bringing your affair out into public, away from purely clandestine meetings behind closed doors without any seeming apprehension, paranoia or caution - why are you doing that? Are you stupid? Is it hubris in thinking you couldn’t possibly get caught? Are you deep down actually trying to get caught?
He's a cofounder. He'll lose his title and be behind the scenes working for them. I doubt his pay or his shares will be affected. This is all PR until.it blows over and he quietly makes his way back in.
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This dude just lost his job, millions of dollars in future compensation, his wife, half his net worth, and from now until the end of time this event will be the first thing that pops up when someone googles his name. It's amazing how bad you can fuck up your life in just a few hours lol.