 MIT alumni founded or co @-@ founded many notable companies , such as Intel , McDonnell Douglas , Texas Instruments , 3Com , Qualcomm , Bose , Raytheon , Koch Industries , Rockwell International , Genentech , Dropbox , and Campbell Soup . According to the British newspaper , The Guardian , " a survey of living MIT alumni found that they have formed 25 @,@ 800 companies , employing more than three million people including about a quarter of the workforce of Silicon Valley . Those firms collectively generate global revenues of about $ 1 @.@ 9 trillion ( £ 1 @.@ 2 trillion ) a year . If MIT were a country , it would have the 11th highest GDP of any nation in the world . " 
