Quote from O'Reilly's article I found interesting.

"Entrepreneurship is another piece of the puzzle. Patil's first flippant answer to "what kind of person are you looking for when you hire a data scientist?" was "someone you would start a company with." That's an important insight: we're entering the era of products that are built on data."

Source: http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/what-is-data-science.html

Data scientists are increasingly getting popular, and in large demand. I really want to find a person I can partner with in the near future, and I hope to find a partner internationally.

You know, start-ups' starters usually had a good partner to begin with. (Microsoft, Google, etc.)