This is great advice. I’d add that either you have a very strong network with people from the industry that want to work with you or you have a solid idea/hypot

This is great advice. I’d add that either you have a very strong network with people from the industry that want to work with you or you have a solid idea/hypothesis of how to solve problems that the industry have. Having the network without a solution to a problem doesn’t work, because big companies have even more access. And everyone is trying to use interviews to try to find new ideas. The experts will just be bored because that’s the nth person trying to interview them. But it’ll it’s also hard to break into an industry when you don’t know anyone but have a great idea. It seems that you have access to people that you can discuss about problems. But you have to bring them and a few ideas how to deal with them while listening to their critics.