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On March 13 (2025, in context), the All-In hosts Jason (A) and Freiberg will appear at South by Southwest, conduct interviews about the future of media and business, and host an intimate event with food and drinks for a few hundred attendees.
All in is headed to South by Southwest on March 13th. Me and Freiberg are going to sit down and do our interviews. Two besties on the future of media and building businesses in this new media ecosystem. We're going to have a casual party. Food, drinks, the whole thing event is going to be pretty intimate. Couple hundred seats.View on YouTube
Explanation
Evidence shows that the core elements of Jason’s prediction did occur:
- The All-In team hosted “All-In Live: Austin” on Thursday, March 13 at the Rollins Studio Theatre at The Long Center in Austin, TX, with doors at 5pm and show at 6pm, followed by an “All-In SXSW Reception” at Arena Hall with open bar, food trucks, poker, music, and networking—i.e., a casual party with food and drinks for attendees. (allin.com) SXSW 2025 ran March 7–15 in Austin, so March 13 is within the festival window. (timeout.com)
- The venue (Rollins Studio Theatre) seats roughly 80–229 people depending on configuration, aligning with Jason’s description of an intimate event with “a couple hundred seats.” (nowplayingaustin.com)
- The live show was released as the episode “All-In Live from Austin: Colin and Samir, Chris Williamson, and Bryan Johnson.” The episode description and transcript confirm Jason Calacanis and David Friedberg hosting live from Austin, with segments explicitly focused on the creator economy, media evolution, YouTube’s influence, content strategies, and business models for creatives—substantially matching “the future of media and building businesses in this new media ecosystem.” (allin.onpodcastai.com) The transcript opens with: “Friedberg and Jason are live from Austin!” and notes they “wanted to do something around this sort of new media creator economy,” which closely mirrors Jason’s on-air framing in the earlier episode. (audioscrape.com)
- A tweet (archived via TwiCopy) from the official This Week in Startups account recaps “The All-In Podcast LIVE @ SXSW”, explicitly naming @jason, Chamath Palihapitiya, and david friedberg on stage with guests Bryan Johnson, Colin & Samir, and Chris Williamson, and mentions a “room full of fans,” corroborating that the live SXSW-affiliated show with Jason and Friedberg did in fact occur and drew a sizable audience. (twicopy.com)
We do not have direct documentation confirming the $30 application fee via allin.com/events, but the main factual components Jason predicted—being in Austin for SXSW on March 13, Jason and Friedberg co-hosting live interviews focused on media/business, and an intimate event with food and drinks for a few hundred people—are all borne out by the available sources. Therefore, the prediction is best classified as right.