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Short answer:

1. Don't do this if you have no reasonable pipeline to build the ML/AI product.

2. However, what you're describing is standard, and maybe even virtuous for people in startups.

There is an outside chance you might be successful if you have huge and special domain knowledge in a particular field or are working in an unsexy field (ie 2nd tier sewage contracts or something) versus the shiny cool stuff.

If you want to talk more, send me an email at [e-mail]