What’s the best choice between the three firms if your goal is big bucks, travel, and strong network across industries to launch a tech startup a few years down the line

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McKinsey has the strongest network

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Fortunately or unfortunately, our alumni network is the largest by far and the best maintained:
+ Our offices globally have a commitment to maintain our alumni networks through independent outreach initiatives and events
+ Our size means it’s easier for us to build a network
+ we have a very live and let live policy to people leaving - we help people land on their feet and thus our alumni are very likely to have positive emotions towards the Firm

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How you treat someone on the way out is as important as how you treat them on the way in. It’s one of the reasons McK is as successful as they are. I’m not a current or ex McK’er but given how I’ve seen other firms treat people, this is critical. You never know where someone will end up down the line.

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We also have an early stage tech investment fund that is connected to lots of folks (incl Mck alum) in investment / VC community.

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Fuel is regular client service but for startup / early stage ecosystem. This is McKinsey Launch

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@OP, feels like you’re looking in the wrong place. Big bucks, travel, and network are equally solid across all three. But how does that help you launch your tech startup (beyond the network,which even then is a stretch)?

Sure if you want to learn robust business fundamentals and get exposed to different kinds of projects and challenges, great. And having it on your resume is even better than Big D.

But don’t come here looking for technical talent or the right mix of people to get you there. That’s not what MBB will ever be good at. For that you should be in some tech hub of a major city, hustling your ass to build real tech cred. That’s not happening here.

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Will keep this in mind, thanks!

Disagree big bucks and travel are equal. BCG’s travel policy significantly better than ours:
- You get biz class flights >1 hr (?) and ours is 3.5 hrs.
- When you fly to a different city than your home city, the tax benefit is covered by BCG, and ours isn’t - so we have to pay eqv 30% of the flight
- Your policy of flying to a different city is spending less than if you go home, as you’re flying biz class everywhere it’s easy for you to fly economy and likely cover cost of the hotel, we have no hotel included as part of our policy.

Our network is double though for your third objective.

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The travel policy at BCG is strongly country-dependent, I have to add

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By strong network I mean really smart and passionate software engineers, mba professionals, tech savvy wall st types that can help with my ipo one day, etc

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