Toast

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"I love the Toast system, which allows you to just order without waiting for a person. I love the fact that I don't have to flag a waiter down when I'm with my kids"

John Coogan

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"Resy and OpenTable and Toast and all these things, they're going to build the sort of counter infrastructure for the onslaught of agent inbound that is coming to every business."

"Toast became our inspiration. They run an outbound hyper-local model. There are a lot of parallels — people running restaurants aren't thinking about point of sale all the time, people running ranches aren't thinking about collars. You kind of hav..."

a16z

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"My favorite example of this is Toast. Toast could have existed in 1985. Like you know, everybody had an IBM PC. They worked pretty well. But if you bundle in payment processing, you're effectively charging $100,000 for that, right? Because maybe y..."

"$70 million ARR, Toast competitor, not growing."

"Toast is looking for intros to these restaurants. Toast, which is one of our biggest investments, which we put like 12% of our fund three into."

20VC with Harry Stebbings

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"I put Toast and Intuit in there because they're software but with a huge slug of transactions that aren't going to be replaced by AI."

TBPN

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"You talk to someone at a restaurant, they say, 'Yeah, I'm still using Toast. I'm still using the POS system.'"