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Wilson: Taylor Swift runs official merchandising store on Miva

Rick Wilson · 908 SaaS: Miva is Enterprise Shopify, Passes $16m in ARR Founded in 1996 · Jan 18, 2018 · at 2:35

Rick Wilson is the CEO of Miva, discussing notable client deployments with host Nathan Latka.

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“Our most famous customer, even though she's not our largest customer is Taylor Swift. So so Taylor uses us for her merchandising store.”

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