Ep. 159: Filling a void with live multiplayer skill games w/ Aman Agarwal & Jatin Narang from Toast

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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