Welcome to Beyond Big Tech: A Founder's Journey to Digital Sovereignty — a new monthly podcast from Tom Breza and Wojtek Kołodziejczak asking one question: can you actually build or rebuild a business on European and open-source tech, without sacrificing quality, cost, or reliability?

Tom brings 30 years in tech and is currently moving his IT and cybersecurity business, Operum.tech, away from US Big Tech infrastructure, one layer at a time. Wojtek — a former lawyer and business developer turned AI governance expert — is on the opposite path, learning the technical side as he goes while building a brand-new company designed to be sovereign from day one. Two founders, two starting points, the same stakes.

In this first episode, Tom opens up his journe ...