clear how important is the project for the rest of the company and how much Jeff Bezos supports the effort after all these years. But Bezos is well-known for planning for the long term, and my (imperfect) statistics tend to confirm (tentatively) that the market is on a good path. About Me Panos Ipeirotis is an Associate Professor and George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow at the Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences at Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University. He is also the Chief Scientist at Tagasauris, and in 2012-2013 serves as "academic-in-residence" at oDesk Research.