This Is How Amancio Ortega Made His Capital :
Amancio Ortega Gaona is a Spanish fashion executive and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $79 billion. Amancio Ortega Gaona earned his fortune as the founder of Inditex, which is the parent company of fashion empire Zara. Amancio has spent the last several decades quietly being one of the wealthiest people in the world.
The youngest of four children, Ortega was born in Busdongo de Arbas, Leon, Spain, to Antonio Ortega RodrÃguez and Josefa Gaona Hernández from the province of Valladollid and spent his childhood in Tolosa, Spain
He left school and moved to A Coruña at the age of 14, due to the job of his father, a railway worker. Shortly after, he found a job as a shop hand for a local shirtmaker called Gala, which still sits on the same corner in downtown A Coruña, and learned to make clothes by hand.
It was revealed in July 2020 that Ortega’s property holdings, through his investment company Pontegadea, were worth $17.2 billion. Ortega is the executive chairman of Pontegadea, and real estate assets in his portfolio.
