You always have to start somewhere. In the case of many a successful startup founder, that means working a day job before they're ready to strike out and start their own new business.
Those big names include like management consulting giant Bain & Company, financial services behemoth Goldman Sachs and even Twitter, the social media platform recently acquired by Elon Musk. of Bain & Co. who went on to entrepreneurial success include Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Intuit co-founder Scott Cook.Bain & Company: 8.13% of former employees have gone on to found their own business.To determine its rankings, OnDeck started with a list of the 100 biggest employers in each state, based on data from job-search website Zippia. OnDeck then analyzed the LinkedIn profiles of more than 228,000 employees who had previously worked at those companies across the U.S.