<p>The UpTake: Jerry Chen sees opportunities for massive changes in the corporate IT world, and as a venture capitalists, he's just won himself a front-row view of the revolution.</p><p>Jerry Chen has jumped from the trenches of data infrastructure disruption to the tranches of funding as a new venture investor at Greylock Partners.</p><p>In 10 years at VMware, Chen helped create key cloud and Big Data products that went from zero to revenue in the billions.</p><p>The following excerpted Q&A comes from a conversation Chen and I had after his new job was announced.</p><p><a href="http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/loot/2013/07/01/new-greylock-vc-jerry-chen-is-poised.html?page=all">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://thevarguy.com/virtualization-applications-and-technologies/vmware-veteran-chen-takes-enterprise-app-venture-capita">VMware Veteran Chen Takes Enterprise App Venture Capital Post</a> (The VAR Guy)</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=denVJSxzVdq5ZxMiRHp29grU6zrzM&ned=us">4 additional articles.</a></p>