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Uber is the most likely company to turn out the next Elon Musk, according to a new survey

Uber employees are most likely to start the next class of hot new startups.

That’s according to a survey included in First Round Capital’s 2018 State of Startups report, which was released on Thursday.

The survey found that 23% of respondents believed Uber employees were the most likely to become the next generation of notable founders within the next five years.

About 16% thought employees at Slack (last valued at $7.1 billion) had the best shot of creating the “next big thing,” and about 15% thought they would come from online-payments company Stripe.

The most infamous group of alumni came from PayPal. Known as the PayPal Mafia, this group of overachieving entrepreneurs included Peter Thiel (cofounder of $20 billion Palantir), Reid Hoffman (cofounder of LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought for $26.2 billion), Jeremy Stoppelman (cofounder of Yelp, valued at $3 billion on the public markets), and Elon Musk (cofounder of Tesla and founder of SpaceX).

Read more: Meet The PayPal Mafia, The Richest Group Of Men In Silicon Valley

Only time will tell if Uber employees can become the next PayPal Mafia. But with the company’s S-1 filing last week, which could see it go public at a valuation as high as $120 billion, current Uber employees may be cashing out and starting their new projects quite soon.

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