[bdickason]

Hey! Author here :D

I'll try to describe this in a bit more detail: Zero-to-one is a type of product which is created from scratch. At many companies, there are existing products and you add features or improve them to grow them. There are other products where you start something completely new. Think Dropbox launching 'Paper' which is a tool to make documents.

Deeply Understanding People means spending time to interview users or run user research, derive problem statements from those discussions, and then turn those into hypotheses. This is different from some PM's who like to focus on metrics and look for patterns in data.

So I'm saying: My strengths are product strategy (of the zero-to-one variety) and understanding people (vs metrics).

As for the style of writing, I aim to write simply and clearly. I'm obviously not hitting the bar here :) Do you have suggestions for equally good alternatives to this sentence? I'd be happy to update it.