<sod>MIT alumni founded or co-founded many notable companies, such as [[Tony Stark|Stark Industries]], [[Robert Noyce|Intel]], [[James Smith McDonnell|McDonnell]] [[Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.|Douglas]], [[Cecil Howard Green|Texas Instruments]], [[Robert Metcalfe|3Com]], [[Andrew Viterbi|Qualcomm]], [[Amar Bose|Bose]], [[Vannevar Bush|Raytheon]], [[Fred C. Koch|Koch Industries]], [[Willard Rockwell|Rockwell International]], [[Robert A. Swanson|Genentech]], [[Drew Houston|Dropbox]], and [[John Thompson Dorrance|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&nbsp;trillion (£1.2&nbsp;trillion) a year. If MIT were a country, it would have the 11th highest GDP of any nation in the world."<ref name="Entrepreneur">{{cite journal|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217327 |title=Gurus and Grads |journal=Entrepreneur|date=September 20, 2010|author1=Ericka Chickowski}}</ref><ref name="Kauffman">{{cite news|title=Kauffman Foundation study finds MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies |publisher=MIT News Office |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/kauffman-study-0217.html |date=February 17, 2009|accessdate=February 25, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pilkington |first=Ed |title=The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/18/mit-massachusetts-150-years-genius|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 18, 2011 |accessdate=May 25, 2011}}</ref><eod>
<sod>MIT alumni founded or co-founded many notable companies, such as [[Robert Noyce|Intel]], [[James Smith McDonnell|McDonnell]] [[Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.|Douglas]], [[Cecil Howard Green|Texas Instruments]], [[Robert Metcalfe|3Com]], [[Andrew Viterbi|Qualcomm]], [[Amar Bose|Bose]], [[Vannevar Bush|Raytheon]], [[Fred C. Koch|Koch Industries]], [[Willard Rockwell|Rockwell International]], [[Robert A. Swanson|Genentech]], [[Drew Houston|Dropbox]], and [[John Thompson Dorrance|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&nbsp;trillion (£1.2&nbsp;trillion) a year. If MIT were a country, it would have the 11th highest GDP of any nation in the world."<ref name="Entrepreneur">{{cite journal|url=http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217327 |title=Gurus and Grads |journal=Entrepreneur|date=September 20, 2010|author1=Ericka Chickowski}}</ref><ref name="Kauffman">{{cite news|title=Kauffman Foundation study finds MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies |publisher=MIT News Office |url=http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/kauffman-study-0217.html |date=February 17, 2009|accessdate=February 25, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Pilkington |first=Ed |title=The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius |url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/18/mit-massachusetts-150-years-genius|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 18, 2011 |accessdate=May 25, 2011}}</ref><eod>