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As is the case with eCommerce in general, the small fish greatly outnumber big fish, but just by how much is worthy of note in the case of Magento. Although Magento is used by fewer companies than Shopify, it has around 5% more merchants making >$1M in Web Sales.

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A deep dive into the flurry of DTC IPOs
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