ALL INPredictions
Last updated Nov 29, 2025
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Jason @ 00:18:15Right
David Sacks will return as a host on the All-In podcast in future episodes, and thereafter the show will use a rotating "fifth seat" format featuring various friends of the podcast and newsmakers as recurring guests.
And Sachs will be back. Sachs will be back and we will be rotating the fifth seat amongst, uh, you know, friends of the pod and newsmakers.
Explanation

Evidence after the Dec 20, 2024 episode shows that both parts of Jason’s prediction materialized.

  1. David Sacks returned as a host. In episode E208 on Dec 20, 2024, Sacks is absent and Aaron Levie is described as “the new fifth bestie,” with a chapter segment explicitly titled “Thoughts on Sacks’s new role,” indicating he had stepped away from regular hosting at that point. (allin.onpodcastai.com) On Jan 25, 2025, episode E212 is released with the explicit title “Trump’s First Week… + Sacks is Back!” and the speaker list shows David Sacks again labeled as a host alongside Jason, Chamath, and Friedberg. (allin.onpodcastai.com) Subsequent 2025 episodes (e.g., E218 on March 8, 2025 and later shows) continue to list Sacks as a host, confirming he returned and remained part of the core lineup. (allin.onpodcastai.com)

  2. The show adopted an ongoing rotating ‘fifth seat’ for friends of the pod and newsmakers. Starting with the Dec 20, 2024 episode itself, the description explicitly frames Aaron Levie as “the new fifth bestie,” effectively occupying a rotating guest chair next to the remaining Besties. (allin.onpodcastai.com) In early 2025, episodes repeatedly follow the pattern of the four hosts plus a prominent guest—e.g., E209 “2025 Predictions with bestie Gavin Baker,” E210 featuring Cyan Banister, and E218 with Joe Lonsdale—each billed as guests while the core Besties remain hosts. (allin.onpodcastai.com) Through 2025 the feed also includes a steady stream of such “friends of the pod and newsmakers” (e.g., Nobel laureate John Martinis, María Corina Machado, Bryan Johnson, Ari Emanuel), again framed as guests while the four Besties remain the named hosts. (podbay.fm) External coverage in outlets like the Wall Street Journal describes All-In in this period as a four-host show that now regularly attracts cabinet secretaries, Nobel winners, and other high-profile figures as guests, consistent with a rotating fifth-seat format rather than a permanent new co-host. (wsj.com)

Given that (a) Sacks did in fact come back as a host in future episodes, and (b) thereafter the show consistently used a rotating guest spot for various recurring friends and newsmakers, Jason’s prediction is best classified as right.