Became friendly with the organizer of the Silicon Valley New Tech meetup, mentioned to him I was looking for a Python job, he put me in touch with the director

Became friendly with the organizer of the Silicon Valley New Tech meetup, mentioned to him I was looking for a Python job, he put me in touch with the director of engineering at my current company. Networking _works_ -- but I should point out that I didn't get to know the organizer to try to get something out of him.