Aman Narang
Background
Aman Narang was born in India and studied computer science and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Engineering. He previously served as an engineering and product leader at Endeca (acquired by Oracle for $1.1 billion).
Role at Toast, Inc.
Aman Narang is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Toast, Inc. While at Endeca, Narang observed how enterprise software had transformed online retail, but had completely ignored the restaurant industry. In 2011, alongside Steve Fredette and Jonathan Stern, Narang founded Toast. Narang championed the company's local field sales clustering model, lived in restaurant kitchens to design durable hardware, and led company operations through its historic post-COVID turnaround. In 2024, Narang assumed the role of CEO, driving Toast to GAAP profitability while scaling to over 120,000 restaurant locations processing over $140 billion in GPV. Narang's humble, kitchen-tested leadership and strategic vision made him one of the most revered vertical enterprise founders of his generation. Spending months in commercial kitchens, Narang built Toast around deep operator empathy and local field density, guiding the company through its harrowing COVID-19 turnaround, multi-billion-dollar NYSE IPO, and multi-year acceleration to GAAP profitability and $4.5B+ in annual revenue.