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Scouting report · TOST

Aman Narang

  • CEO, Co-Founder & Director, TOST since 2024-01src

Co-founded Toast in 2011; CEO since January 2024

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design53revenue, ebitda, individual, time only · 94.2% for · 3.12% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
43src
In the role
3 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • Dual-class control: Class B carries ten votes a share, and the executives and directors as a group hold 70.3% of Class B and 40.6% of the vote. Minority holders cannot outvote the founderssrc
  • The pay-versus-performance table shows $100 invested at the 2021 IPO worth $57 at end-2025, against $209 for the peer index. Most of that period was before he became CEOsrc
  • In August 2026 his charitable remainder trust sold all 300,000 shares it held (about $10.6m) under a 10b5-1 plan, about 1.3% of his beneficial stakesrc

In their favour 1

  • Cash pay kept token until he became CEO ($20,000 salary 2021-2023), and he asked the board for a smaller 2025 equity grant to limit dilutionsrc

Career

  1. 2024 – now
    Toast, Inc.src
    Chief Executive Officer; director
    CEO since January 2024; director since January 2021 (also December 2011 to December 2015 and June 2017 to June 2018)
  2. 2021 – 2023
    Toast, Inc.src
    Co-President and Chief Operating Officer
    COO June 2021 to December 2023, alongside the Co-President title; took the company public in September 2021 with Comparato as CEO
  3. 2012 – 2021
    Toast, Inc.src
    Co-President
    Co-President from December 2012 (until December 2023)
  4. 2011 – 2012
    Toast, Inc.src
    Co-Founder; director
    The founders' letter in the prospectus dates the start to 2011; board seat from December 2011. His title before the December 2012 Co-President appointment is not stated

Undated in the sources

  • Endeca Technologies (acquired by Oracle in 2011)src, Product management; led the mobile business unit

Not located: Start date and length of the Endeca/Oracle product-management role not located; his title from founding (2011) to December 2012 not stated in any filing read

Achievements

  • Co-founded Toast in 2011 with Steve Fredette and Jonathan Grimm, MIT alumni who had worked together at Endecasrc
  • Co-President from December 2012 and COO from June 2021; became CEO on 2024-01-01 when Chris Comparato stepped downsrc
  • Toast's GAAP net income went from a $246m loss in FY2023, the year before he became CEO, to $19m in FY2024 and $342m in FY2025src
  • The 2026 proxy reports about 164,000 locations at end-2025 after a record 30,000 net additions, and entry into Australiasrc
  • Took a $20,000 salary from the 2021 IPO through 2023; in 2025 asked the board for a smaller equity award, citing dilution, and got $10.0msrc

Education

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, BS Computer Sciencesrc
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MS Computer Sciencesrc

Background

  • Family Neither the 2026 proxy nor the 2021 IPO prospectus carries an Item 401(d) family-relationships statement for him; the 2026 related-party section lists no transaction beyond executive paysrc
  • Founder One of three co-founders; with fellow co-founder and President Stephen Fredette he controls a large block of the 10-vote Class B stock (Narang 32.2% of Class B and 18.4% of voting power, Fredette 40.0% and 22.5%); the third co-founder, Jonathan Grimm, holds 18.0% of Class Bsrc
  • Other Holds shares through the Narang Family Trust and in 2026 set up a charitable remainder trust (Starlight 2026) that received 300,000 converted Class B shares as an estate-planning giftsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

11
  1. Filing Toast, Inc. DEF 14A (accession 0001650164-26-000098) · 2026-04-23
  2. Filing Toast, Inc. 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001650164-26-000130) · 2026-06-15
  3. Filing Toast, Inc. 8-K Item 5.02, CEO transition from Comparato to Narang (0001193125-23-228134) · 2023-09-05
  4. Filing Toast, Inc. IPO prospectus, 424B4 (0001193125-21-279379) · 2021-09-22
  5. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1650164 (FY2025 10-K, 0001650164-26-000057) · 2026-02-18
  6. Filing Form 4, Aman Narang (reporting CIK 1869139), 10b5-1 sales by the Starlight 2026 Charitable Remainder Trust on 2026-08-05/06 (0001650164-26-000174) · 2026-08-07
  7. Filing Form 4, Aman Narang, 10b5-1 sales by the Starlight 2026 Charitable Remainder Trust on 2026-08-07/10 (0001650164-26-000178) · 2026-08-11
  8. Filing Form 4, Aman Narang, Class B conversion and estate-planning gifts of 2026-03-11/13 (0001869139-26-000004) · 2026-03-13
  9. Filing Form 4, Aman Narang, RSU vesting and sell-to-cover of 2025-10-01/02 (0001650164-25-000313); the same pattern repeats in the Form 4s of 2025-11-05, 2026-01-06, 2026-02-04, 2026-04-03 and 2026-07-06 · 2025-10-03
  10. Call transcript TOST Q2 2026 earnings call, ROIC.ai
  11. Web search result WebSearch: MIT News, 'Streamlining restaurant operations' (2019-03-10), on Toast's MIT-alumni founders Narang, Grimm and Fredette and their time at Endeca · 2026-09-24