Max Buecher

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Max Buecher on Valerian, Greenland and Digital Sovereignty

Max Buecher, founder and CEO of Valerian, returns for his second appearance. The conversation centers on digital sovereignty: the Greenland situation, Trump's stimulus-style offers, the Venezuela precedent, and how Trump is inadvertently catalyzing European defense and tech sovereignty. Max explains Valerian's position as a middleware/abstraction layer for running sensitive workloads above US clouds, why the UK lacks a single defense unicorn, the 51% US-ownership contracting hurdle, and why he frames the goal as resilience and economic value aggregation rather than reinventing the whole stack. He teases delivery milestones from their unsexy groundwork on bases.