Brian Raymond is the founder and CEO of Unstructured. They provide open source libraries and APIs to build custom preprocessing pipelines for labeling, training, and production machine learning pipelines. They've raised a seed round from BCV, Mango, and Essence. He was previously the VP of Global Public Sector at Primer. Prior to that, he has held roles at CIA and the National Security Council.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- The need for data preprocessing
- LLM use cases that are exciting
- What AI use cases are useful to government agencies
- How should startups think about building for the government
- Building the user base for Unstructured
- 4 pillars of the emerging tech stack for LLMs
- Open source software

Brian's favorite books: Chip War, The Main Enemy, Damascus Station, The Red Sparrow Trilogy

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