The pitch is done, the proposal has been sent.

Philly’s officially in the running to become the site of Amazon’s proposed second headquarters, a 50,000-employee campus that will have a profound, transformative impact in any city it chooses. By not a small number of informed guesses, Philly’s a real contender. It meets many of the baseline requirements in CEO Jeff Bezos’ shopping list: a population bigger than a million and access to an international airport, among a bunch of millennial-friendly quality-of-life pluses.

A handful of local tech execs have been lending their voices in support of Philly as an HQ2 site.

“Philly has an X factor that very few cities can claim: we’ve got momentum,” Curalate CEO Apu Gupta said in the three-minute video put together to summarize the city’s proposal.

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