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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

S11 E13: Matt Hamann, Rownd

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

Tech News, News, Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.6216 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Matt Hamann knew he was going to be in tech way back in his younger days. His Dad worked for IBM, so there were always fun things to talk about and play with. He got his first family computer when he was 4 years old, and started programming BASIC when he was 8. Eventually, they got dialup through AOL - and he took off building websites with PHP & MySQL. Outside of tech, he is married with 3 kids. He loves to travel and spend time with his family. He also plays several instruments, including the piano and pipe organ, and enjoys tinkering with smart home devices.

Right around the time of the pandemic, Matt and his co-founder were pitching a new company idea in Y Combinator, around data privacy. After receiving the feedback that there wasn't a big market for the original idea, they started to jam on ideas on how to pivot - and quickly landed on how cool it would be to have password-less authentication.

This is the creation story of Rownd.

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:11.1

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0:18.8

Guys, I've got something cool to tell you about.

0:21.4

As an engineering leader, a manager, and an engineer myself,

0:24.4

I'm geeking out over a new product I'm just discovering

0:27.1

that helps me with each of these points of view.

0:29.8

The great team at SEMA, builders of the SEMA intelligence platform,

0:34.1

have been working on what they call the product roadmap radar.

0:38.5

It's this integrated solution that uses generative AI to observe your code and Jira in order to summarize, synthesize,

0:44.4

and make it easier to deliver your roadmap. It not only helps keep your roadmap on track,

0:49.3

but it helps reduce the time engineers spend in meetings. Cue all the engineers clapping.

0:56.0

The product roadmap radar is extremely easy to set up.

0:59.0

This only takes about five minutes, just enable your integrations and let AI do all the mapping for you.

1:04.0

My favorite part? I'm glad you asked.

1:06.0

The radar doesn't just tell you about your roadmap.

1:09.0

It suggests changes you need to make,

1:11.5

based on the code that's been written and the stories that have been addressed. No commenting,

1:16.2

no special setup, all generative AI. It gives you an outside view of your roadmap based on

1:21.8

the code and projects a target completion date based on outstanding work and activity. Again,

1:29.1

no comments, no special setup.

1:33.7

It even detects shadow work when development is being done but Jura isn't being updated.

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