Networking Hacks/Leverage

I just graduated and am moving to the Bay for a job as an engineer at an AI thing. During college I networked via cold messaging through linkedIn and email, and going to happy hours etc. That got me decently far, but as I've gone higher up, I've realized people are more willing to meet if you have some leverage (investor, large+valuable rolodex, etc). I don't have any of those things right now.

I am putting this out there to ask, does anyone have suggestions for how to build/acquire this conversational "leverage"?

 

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