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<pre><code>McDonnell Douglas
Campbell Soup
3COM
Bose
Analog Devices
MathWorks
Gillette
Texas Instruments
Akamai
International Data Group (IDG)
Teradyne
Raytheon
Genentech
Harmonix
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<p>Were all founded by MIT alumni. So were more than 25,800 other companies employing 3.2 million people. If the active companies founded by MIT graduates formed an independent nation, their revenues would make that nation at least the 17th-largest economy in the world.</p>