12 Tips: From Data Analyst to Startup Co-Founder - KDnuggets

Early in my career, working as a data analyst, I, like many people, dreamed of doing something significant and valuable for people. I wanted to be creative. I wanted to feel the results of my work, not just study the data. I worked at several startup companies for ten years before co-founding an e-commerce recommendation services company in 2012. In 2020, during the COVID pandemic, I went on sabbatical for a year -- wrote a book, released it on Amazon, and left the successful company (positive cash flow, 150 employees in Russia, Europe, and South America) entirely in the summer of 2021.