On the job learning: The story of how a few drinks and a beard app cemented a partnership with Vijay Mathews and Chris Auyeung
March 30, 2010 
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BeardMe, the “premier facial hair application for the iPhone and iPod Touch” was something I needed to see. Could anyone be making money from an app that let me put facial hair on picture of my 3-year old? Answering that question is what moved me to get in touch with Vijay Mathews and Chris Auyeung, the co-founders of Winfield & Co. Once I got them on the show it didn’t take a genius to figure out that the combination of Vijay, Chris and Winfield & Co was the blueprint for the next generation AppPreneur.
Their story is interesting and intriguing — they’ve built and launched 9 apps in 18 months, a period that will be classified as a warm up for what they say is coming from their next application. They’ve managed to figure out how to work together — an incredible feat considering they work in separate offices in separate cities and considering that not many partnerships work out.
I really enjoyed talking to these guys and marveled at the amount of effort it took to create the perfect fake beard — something they were surprised about as well![private]
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About Vijay Mathews
Vijay Mathews, Winfield & Co.’s graphic and user interface designer, is a designer at Two Twelve Associates in New York City.
About Christopher Auyeung
Chris Auyeung, Winfield & Co.’s programmer, is currently an independent software engineer. He was formally a Senior Software Engineer at Convio in Austin, Texas.
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