Narang: Generational companies require both specialists and entrepreneurial generalists
Aman Narang · Aman Narang: 5 Lessons Scaling Toast to $14BN Market Cap | E1192 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Aug 21, 2024 · at 9:06
Aman Narang, co-founder and CEO of Toast, discusses talent scaling using the Horizon framework from Geoffrey Moore's book 'Zones to Win'.
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“And so there's this balance, I always say, like, you want to have a company that's got a balance of, like, specialists and entrepreneurs, and so one of the things I love is this, and actually Chris, our old CEO, brought this to us, this is the Zones to Win book. I hadn't read it. Yeah. That's, like, the one thing I really took away was this, like, Horizon framework really works, because it's not just about, like, innovation in Horizon Three and Horizon One is different, but the people in Horizon One and Horizon Three are different. You need both in a company if you want to build a generational company.”
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