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The third data superhero archetype that has evolved over the past decade is the data entrepreneur. If you’re a data entrepreneur, your secret superpower is building up businesses by delivering exceptional data science services and products.

You have the same type of focus and drive as the data implementer, but you apply it toward bringing your business vision to reality. But, like the data leader, your love for data science is inspired mostly by the incredible outcomes that it makes possible. A data entrepreneur has many overlapping traits and a greater affinity for either the data implementer or the data leader, but with one important difference:

Data entrepreneurs crave the creative freedom that comes with being a founder.

Data entrepreneurs are more risk-tolerant than their data implementer or data leader counterparts. This risk tolerance and desire for freedom allows them to do what they do — which is to create a vision for a business and then use their data science expertise to guide the business to turn that vision into reality.

For more information on how to transform data science expertise into a profitable product or business, jump over to Part 3.

Using my own data science career to illustrate what this framework looks like in action, (as mentioned earlier in this chapter) I started off as a data science implementer, and quickly turned into a data entrepreneur. Within my data business, however, my focus has been on data science training services, data strategy services, and mentoring data entrepreneurs to build world-class businesses. I’ve helped educate more than a million data professionals on data science and helped grow existing data science communities to more than 650,000 data professionals — and counting. Stepping back, you could say that although I call myself a data entrepreneur, the work I do has a higher degree of affinity to data leadership than data implementation.

I encourage you to go to the companion site to this book at https://businessgrowth.ai/ and take that career path quiz I mention earlier in this section. The quiz can give you a head-start in determining where you best fit within the spectrum of data science superhero archetypes.