Evidence shows that within a few weeks of the January 25, 2025 podcast, David Sacks moved from a tentative, onboarding phase into an active policy‑shaping role on crypto and AI.

• Official role and authority: Public records list Sacks as White House AI and Crypto Czar with a term start of January 20, 2025, and as chair/co‑chair of relevant presidential advisory bodies, giving him formal responsibility to shape policy in these domains.(en.wikipedia.org) Executive Order 14178 (“Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology”), signed January 23, 2025, creates a President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets and tasks it with proposing a federal regulatory framework for digital assets within 180 days; multiple summaries state that this working group is led/chaired by Sacks in his special advisor role.(en.wikipedia.org) That structure is exactly the kind of policy‑shaping authority he was describing.

• Active policy shaping within ~10 days: By February 4, 2025—about ten days after the podcast—CNBC reports Sacks, described as the newly appointed White House AI and crypto czar, meeting with lawmakers and publicly setting concrete priorities: making stablecoin legislation a top focus, and leading a task force studying a U.S. Bitcoin or digital‑asset reserve at the president’s direction. He explicitly frames objectives and timelines (e.g., getting legislation through Congress in roughly six months), which goes well beyond a mere “listening mode” and into active agenda‑setting.(cnbc.com) That timing fits the prediction’s “over the next couple of weeks” window.

• Major policy initiatives soon after: On March 6, 2025, Trump signs an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile; coverage notes that this move followed recommendations and public advocacy by Sacks in his capacity as White House crypto and AI advisor, and that his working group is central to executing the policy.(politico.com) This is clear evidence that by early March—still only about six weeks after the podcast—Sacks was deeply involved in designing and promoting specific federal crypto policy.

• Ethics/onboarding process: Reports describe Sacks serving as a special government employee (SGE) under ethics waivers, with Democratic lawmakers later scrutinizing whether he has complied with SGE rules and time limits—an indication that the White House ethics apparatus formally processed his status.(mexc.com) Additional reporting details a White House memo (dated early March and publicly noted mid‑March) documenting that Sacks and Craft Ventures divested hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto‑related holdings and obtained conflict‑of‑interest waivers to serve as the president’s special advisor for AI and crypto, explicitly tying these divestments to compliance with government ethics regulations.(ainvest.com) While some ethics questions persisted later, this evidence shows that an ethics/onboarding process did occur and was sufficiently advanced by late winter 2025 for him to operate in a fully engaged advisory role.

Putting these pieces together: by early February 2025—well within “a few weeks” of the January 25 podcast—Sacks had moved into visible, substantive policy‑shaping activities on crypto and AI, under a formally recognized White House role and associated ethics framework. The existence of later ethics controversies does not contradict the core claim that, after an initial onboarding period, he transitioned from listening to actively shaping policy in the timeframe he described. Therefore, the prediction is right.