Interview: Greg Grunberg and August Trometer, Founders of Yowza, Action Heroes

Greg Grunberg and his partners August Trometer and Rick Yeager have a successful iPhone App called Yowza - it's basically a location-aware coupon app that gives you great deals at major merchants - and Greg plays Matt Parkman on NBC's Heroes , a program I'm told is quite popular with a certain demographic. They are two very cool guys. I got a chance to talk to Greg and August about building iPhone apps, acting while topless, and was quite close to getting Hayden Panettiere's phone number for you all. CrunchGear: So… Yowza, is this your fallback move? Is this what happens when the bottom falls out of this whole acting fad? Greg Grunberg: Exactly. This is for when they're thinking about firing me and I’m like "I don’t understand, why is make-up putting some sort of an STD sore on my face? What’s going on? You know, is my character going to be killed off?" I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy, I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me actually. JJ Abrams is one of my closest friends so when he was creating that show, he was like, I've got the perfect character Sean Lumberg, He’s always looking for the next idea. I mean I’ve been friends with JJ since preschool, believe it or not. All through college I was selling this and selling that, different businesses and stuff.