Four founders of some of Philly’s most influential tech companies gathered last week at Harp & Crown to talk fundraising, growing your company and the highest and lowest moments of building a startup.

The event, run by venture capital firm Accel and Philly Startup Leaders, brought together about 100 founders and entrepreneurs to hear from Bumble COO Sarah Jones Simmer, and the founders of goPuff, Crossbeam, Guru and Venmo (remember when it was a Philly startup?).

What followed were discussions of some of the crew’s biggest lessons they’ve learned, why they decided to start their companies in Philly, and fundraising (except, notably, no one asked goPuff cofounder Yakir Gola about the company’s massive $750 million raise).

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