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Sarah’s Tech

Deep Dives into European Tech

Einblicke in die europäische Tech-Branche, KI-Strategien & Startups.

Episodencover „Three Lost Platforms – Europe won the device. Twice.", Sarahs Tech, Staffel 1, Folge 12. Goldener EU-Sternenkranz über einer Wand aus Kacheln mit Technikbegriffen von ZX Spectrum bis Mistral; ARM, SPRAY, SYMBIAN und THE LAYER sind gold hervorgehoben.

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Episode 12 — Three Lost Platforms

Europe won the device three times and lost the layer underneath three times: the standard, the network, the operating system.

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Technologie-Strategist & Host von Sarah’s Tech. Analysen zu KI, Web-Infrastruktur und digitaler Politik.

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  • Three Lost Platforms

    In 1981 the BBC picked a schools computer, and the winner quietly funded a chip project called the Acorn RISC Machine. In 2000 a German-Swedish portal empire bought Europe’s consumer internet with European money, and dissolved eight years later without anyone acquiring it. In 2007 the world’s best phones lost to two app stores. Three…

  • An Imaginary ETF: European Tech, As Listed

    Two podcast voices assemble a European technology fund on air. Chips and enterprise software look excellent. Cloud looks small. Robotics turns out to be Chinese-owned. And then the consumer basket falls apart entirely — because Europe’s fastest-growing companies all ring the bell on Wall Street. Full holdings with securities identifiers included.

  • Who Owns The Checkout?

    Three payment headlines landed in one week: Sweden reinstating cash, Stripe’s bid for PayPal, and the digital euro heading into trilogue. In episode 9 of Sarahs Tech I argue they’re not three stories but one — and untangle what the digital euro actually is.

  • The Strategy Illusion

    80% of European companies say they have an AI strategy. The developers building the products trust AI output at 29%. The new Sarahs Tech episode lives in that gap — plus what the EU AI Act’s August 2nd rules really mean for you.

  • Fractured Monoliths and Gilded Cages

    Wir haben das moderne Netz auf dem Versprechen unendlicher, reibungsloser globaler APIs aufgebaut. Der jüngste Anthropic-Schock hat diese Illusion an einem einzigen Wochenende zerschlagen. In Episode 5 von Sarahs Tech sezieren Sarah Vejlby und ich die unbequemen Wahrheiten hinter den Berichten von Letta und Draghi: Warum Europa sich als „digitale Kolonie“ an US-Monolithe verkauft hat,…

  • Neu: Sarahs Tech – Podcast

    The digital landscape is fracturing, and sterile corporate tech talk is dead. „Sarahs Tech“ is a brand-new, unpolished podcast feed hosted right here on markus.technology. It is a high-stakes verbal sparring match between venture-backed speed and bare-metal infrastructure reality. No polite nodding—just raw, strategic trade-offs about European data sovereignty and local AI architecture.