🎙️PODCAST & TECH ANALYSEN
Sarah’s Tech
Two Voices with Deep Dives into Europe’s Tech Ecoysystems
Where European infrastructure meets real-world AI: rigorous analysis, economic trade-offs, and zero vendor marketing.
WHAT WE ARE DOING
Unvarnished perspectives on European tech sovereignty, practical AI implementation, and the physical reality beneath the hype.
Most conversations about European technology veer between defeatism and ungrounded buzzwords. Sarah’s Tech exists in the pragmatic middle.
We examine the strategic decisions shaping Europe’s digital backbone—sovereign cloud infrastructure, semiconductor supply lines, open-weight AI architectures, and the regulatory frameworks governing them. But instead of accepting marketing narratives at face value, we stress-test them against balance sheets, server logs, and empirical data.
What makes the show distinct is its dynamic: a human operator rooted in decades of web and hosting infrastructure debating with a synthetic co-host who cross-references policy drafts and datasets in real time. We don’t ask what technology promises in theory; we track where the costs land, who owns the underlying silicon, and why true autonomy is an engineering challenge, not an executive slogan.
⏱️ about 25 min. very week | MP3 Audio | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS
HOST & PUBLISHER
Markus Käkenmeister
Technology strategist & Host in Sarah’s Tech | Head of GTM & Cloud Alliances with a regional provider in Germany.
Alle Episoden und Analysen
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97 percent of enterprise executives rolled out AI agents, yet under a quarter report meaningful financial returns. In Episode 15, Sarah and Markus revisit Robert Solow’s 1987 paradox, examine the productivity J-curve, test the „Minitel trap,“ and highlight five tangible entry points where small businesses can extract real value today.
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The data didn’t leak from the sovereign cloud; it leaked from an external vendor. In Episode 14, Sarah and Markus break down the XM Cyber deal, the EU’s new SEAL scoring system, and why true digital autonomy hits a hard wall at the physical chip layer.
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Brussels almost gave users what they actually wanted: set your tracking preference once in the browser and never see a cookie banner again. Then Germany, France, and Google teamed up to strike Article 88b. An honest look at the economics of consent and ad-tech.
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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…
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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.
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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.
