“Whenever you disrupt a massive industry and you try to make room for yourself inside of that industry, the various interests are going to push back,” he says. “They didn’t build a billion-dollar hotel industry by not knowing how to push back. The more incumbent you are, the more you can use politics to do that.” At the end of the day, Seibel says, echoing so many others, it’s the consumer who votes and the consumer who usually wins.
