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Ian Sephton reposted thisIan Sephton reposted thisWe had a great day with the football team at Arizona St. The guys celebrated the 150+ students from the Tempe & Phoenix School Districts. Our Collegiate athletes are amazing young people with compassion and have as big of hearts as they do muscles. #GoDevils🔱
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Ian Sephton reposted thisIan Sephton reposted thisGMV has been awarded a $43M contract by the City of Los Angeles, through the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), to continue powering DASH and Commuter Express services through 2030. This milestone strengthens a partnership of more than 20 years, now entering a new phase focused on innovation, efficiency, and passenger experience. With over 15 million journeys annually, these services are a key part of Los Angeles’ mobility ecosystem. GMV will contribute by: • Upgrading the fleet with our latest onboard platform, 𝙂𝙈𝙑 𝙃𝙪𝙗 • Deploying more than 300 solar-powered real-time passenger information displays • Enhancing safety, accessibility, and service reliability What started as a pilot bus-tracking program has evolved into a fully integrated Intelligent Transportation System supporting 400+ vehicles across the city. We are proud to continue supporting LADOT in building a more connected, reliable, and future-ready public transport network, especially as Los Angeles prepares for major global events in the coming years. https://ow.ly/HMpP50YvcMt #SmartMobility #ITS #PublicTransport #UrbanMobility
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Ian Sephton posted thisIt’s wild how much trust we put in the food ecosystem. Meat, produce, fruit, you name it. But how much do we really know about the quality of what we’re eating?
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Ian Sephton shared thisBest time of year! #MycauseMycleatsIan Sephton shared thisThis year we are blessed to have two athletes supporting Inclusive Sports for years #MyCauseMyCleats initiative. Please consider supporting us and our athletes.
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Ian Sephton reposted thisIan Sephton reposted thisMy career at GMV started as the junior sales manager working under Alex Fay. He's got a knack for raising up some of our best employees across the organization. Come join GMV on Alex's team for that same awesome opportunity!
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Ian Sephton reposted thisIan Sephton reposted thisInclusive Sports had another AMAZING day with Cal St Long Beach Athletics and the Long Beach Unified School District. This is the heart work we get to do when we have the resources. Look at those faces, look at the pure joy. If this touches your heart please consider supporting us at www.isfathletes.com
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Ian Sephton shared thisYou will learn a ton from these legends!Ian Sephton shared thisKristen English and I are hiring at AECetc.! We are looking to add a few talented and motivated freelancers to our growing team. You'll get hands-on training from both of us, who bring a combined 20+ years of industry experience. Graphic design skills are a must-have, and you can be located anywhere in the United States. Email me at ava@aecetc.com if you are interested! Feel free to share with any other contacts who may be interested!
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisAlways a pleasure to catch up with the crew at Jay Leno’s Garage. #ArchMotorcycle #Arch1s #LenosGarage
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisI had the honor of working with and for Dr. White when she was at USC and am humbled to call her my friend. Her leadership is impressive and bold. The future of Higher Education is brighter because of her tremendous work.This College Spends Far More Than Its Peers on Student Support. Will It Work?This College Spends Far More Than Its Peers on Student Support. Will It Work?
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisWe unsell every CEO candidate we interview. This job is hard. Why do you actually want this? Not the polished answer. The real one. We hired a CEO who had a successful exit by any measure. Looked us dead in the face and said: "That was a failure." That's the energy we hire for at UP.Labs. If it doesn't physically hurt you when this company fails, you're not the right CEO for us. Some people think that's intrusive. But startups aren't safe.
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisAmerican Public Transportation Association’s Capitol Hill visits were a great reminder of how important it is for our industry to tell its story. This week, we showed a united front between the public and private sides of transit—and that message matters. Public transportation is far more than buses and trains. It’s a massive economic ecosystem that drives jobs, fuels innovation, supports domestic manufacturing, and keeps communities moving. At Transit Marketing Group, we’re proud to support agencies with Buy America-compliant solutions that help deliver safer, smarter, and more reliable service. From industry-leading fire protection and multimodal bike solutions to passenger information systems, solar power and charging technologies, charge management, and environmentally responsible cleaning products, every solution plays a role in strengthening transit. These public-private partnerships are essential to the future of mobility, and this week was a great example of what we can accomplish when our industry speaks with one voice. Thank you to American Public Transportation Association and its staff for putting together such an impactful week. Proud to be part of an industry that keeps America moving forward. Amerex Corporation Sportworks Luminator Technology Group Merlin Solar Technologies American Public Transportation Association Transit Marketing Group
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisI've spent the last decades helping organizations tell better stories. Newsflash - the best stories existed within the orgs all along, but they were buried. Invariably, the best stories are where the people inside come into contact with the people they serve. Nothing new here. What’s different now is our ability to access those buried stories. In many orgs, the stories are forgotten in old call transcripts, all-hands recordings, meeting notes nobody indexed. Real moments. Verified history. Claims no competitor could make — because they didn't live them. AI is not solving this. In fact, it’s making it worse. Now that everyone can produce polished, on-brand-ish content faster than ever, companies are just churning out more and more synthetic, generic, algorithmically pleasant sounding mediocrity. Everything sounds like everything else. So I built something based on a simple thesis: belief is won through the real, it’s not generated. The thing I built finds the stories your organization has already lived — and turns them into something you can actually use. This isn't a content tool. Content tools start with what you give them. This finds what you didn't know you had. I have a pilot already running inside one of my client’s orgs. I'm not raising (yet). I'm looking for the right people and right orgs to keep testing. Specifically: → Orgs with a real archive worth mining, a leader willing to define what the organization is not, and a mission worth proving with real stories. → Operators with deep networks inside nonprofits, foundations, universities, or hospital systems. → Technical co-founders in AI or enterprise data architecture → Strategic connectors who understand how mission-driven organizations buy Oh, and I should mention that your data stays exactly where it is. Nothing trains a model that isn’t yours. If this makes you lean forward, I'd love to talk. Most organizations have lived better stories than they tell. This is archaeology for those buried stories.
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Ian Sephton liked thisThis is always such a great event. Westcliff University is the model for how to execute our inclusive sports days.Ian Sephton liked thisThere are days on the calendar you circle and this is always one of them. For the 5th time, Westcliff University teamed up with the Inclusive Sports Foundation to host Inclusive Sports Day, welcoming hundreds of student-athletes and local Orange County high school students with disabilities for a day built on connection, joy, and community. What stands out most isn’t just the games, it’s the relationships. Familiar faces finding each other again, new friendships forming in real time, and a reminder that sport has a unique way of bringing people together. From the first activity to the last dance, the energy never dips. And while our student-athletes come ready to give their time and support, they leave just as impacted by the experience. Moments like this are what it’s all about. #WestcliffUniversity #InclusiveSportsDay #Community #StudentAthletes #HigherEd
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisToday we wrapped up or university events with University of San Diego. What a beautiful campus. The athletes came out fired up and did such a great job with the visiting schools from the San Diego area. We had roughly 250 student with special needs at our event today and they had such a great time.
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisOn May 15, legendary USC football coach Pete Carroll will return to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to deliver the commencement address for USC Marshall’s Class of 2026. Throughout his coaching career, Carroll has consistently practiced and preached his “Win Forever” philosophy, an approach that emphasizes competition and the pursuit of excellence in all facets of life. As Carroll looks forward to his remarks and reflects back on his career, it’s not the trophies or records that stand out. Most of all, he remembers the impact he tried to leave on his players and the entire Trojan Family. “I’m just going to coach [USC Marshall’s Class of 2026] up,” Carroll said. “I hope I make them understand how extraordinary they are one more time.” Read more: https://lnkd.in/giCrYKe9
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Ian Sephton liked thisIan Sephton liked thisSaw a clip from Peter H. Diamandis about laddering talent in AI native companies. Made me realize that there will be so many 1-50m signing bonuses made by AI native companies for single employees. Companies in the near future will be able to predict the future enterprise value creation of a single AI native contributor that has achieved mastery in a particular part of the run-time.
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