After some executive at a great company accepts connect request on LinkedIn.

Me: * writes a well drafted message thanking for acceptance and suggest future collaboration*

He/She: 👍

What do you want them to say? Shit, your lucky they didnt delete you.

Management is always busy and have no free time in their schedule. So you are probably in some notes or on the top of some paper stack, just waiting for next week, when he/she booked him/her self in his/hers calender to look at candidates. If you want it, consider yourself lucky.
He/she might be a lovely person in real life

@D--M is there a better way? I was actually hoping to get a conversation started and subtlety look for internship at that company.

@yadhuksp Don't be subtle