Ep. 159 features Aman Agarwal and Jatin Narang from Toast, building live multiplayer skill games with built-in player liquidity for real money iGaming. This episode was recorded at the World Trade Center during the NEXT Summit New York in March 2025.
Hear them discuss:
- Toast’s origins: uniting Aman’s gambling roots and Jatin’s free-to-play expertise
- Blending gambling psychology with free-to-play innovation to shape their vision
- Their thesis for how skill games can fill the U.S. iCasino regulatory gap
- How they ideate on new game concepts and formats, including their latest skill-based basketball game
- Their learnings from the last G2E conference that led to development of new core infrastructure
- How interest in their games is converting into commercial traction
- How growing interest in entrepreneurship has led to a startup boom in India
- Securing a Lightspeed seed round pre-product in just six weeks
Check out a demo of one of Toast's games here: https://21-jack.playtoast.com/
Watch the video version of this episode here.
Learn more 👇
➡️ Toast website
➡️ Aman Agarwal on Linkedin
➡️ Jatin Narang on Linkedin
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