Want to quit your job and do part-time jobs? Get started with one of these 5 companies

You always have to start somewhere. For many successful startup founders, this means working through the day before they are ready to drop everything and start their own new business.

So, where is the best place for future founders to work? A few large companies top the list, according to a new report from small business lending platform OnDeck, looking at large US companies with a large number of former employees starting their own businesses.

These big names include management consulting giant Bain & Company, financial services giant Goldman Sachs, and even Twitter, the social media platform recently acquired by Elon Musk.

Boston-based Bain tops the list with 8.13% of former employees becoming founders, the highest of any company in OnDeck’s analysis. Notable Bain & Co. alumni who have found success in entrepreneurship include Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Intuit co-founder Scott Cook.

Here are the top five:

1. Bain & Company: 8.13% of former employees started their own business.
2. Oliver Wyman: 7.93%
3. McKinsey & Company: 7.75%
4. Strategy&: 7.44%
5. Universal Music Group: 7.39%

To determine its ranking, OnDeck started with a list of the top 100 employers in each state, based on data from the job search site Zippia. OnDeck then analyzed the profiles of more than 228,000 LinkedIn employees who previously worked for these companies in the US to determine how many started their own business as a sole founder or co-founder.

All four top companies on the OnDeck list come from the consulting world, which is no surprise: consultants at these companies are often assigned to help clients hone their management and business strategies.

If they eventually decide to use these skills for their own startup, their connections with investors and other wealthy clients can help them access the funding they need to launch and grow their new venture.

Twitter is the top-ranked tech company on the list, with 6.17% of former employees looking to start their own business. Having a big-name tech company on your resume is one way to grab the attention of potential investors and you’ll meet other tech talent you could potentially hire in the future.

Some of the tech workers who quit — by layoffs or voluntarily — amid Musk’s takeover of Twitter, are already launching microblogging competitors like Spill. The history of the entrepreneurial production company even goes back to its founders: Jack Dorsey launched the payment platform Square, and Evan Williams founded Medium, both after Twitter.

If you work on Wall Street, you can reach out to potential investors who could support future ventures. Such was the case with billionaire Jeff Bezos, who left his job at Wall Street hedge fund DE Shaw in 1994 to move to Seattle and start the e-commerce business that became Amazon, notes OnDeck.

Goldman Sachs tops financial companies in OnDeck’s rankings, with 5.92% of former employees becoming founders. Notable alumni include billionaire private equity investor Robert Smith, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam.

Focusing mainly on large companies, the OnDeck report does not provide an exhaustive list. Working at a startup before launching it yourself can provide invaluable experience in what it takes to launch a new business.

Indeed, entrepreneurs like Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel advise aspiring founders to first work at other startups in their industry of interest before starting their own.

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