Would be interested to hear why you’re studying machine learning. Do you see important problems you think it can solve, are you looking to make more $$ as an ML data scientist, or just generally interested in stats/data?
That said, eventually, I want to start a startup. I'm building out small side projects now. I'm generally comfy with web + mobile dev, and I wanted to upskill in a "newer" technology that was more "mathy".