Ortega vs Huang
Inditex and Nvidia.
The differences
- Forbes puts Jensen Huang about $50.1B ahead of Amancio Ortega.Forbes figures from 15 Oct 2026 and 6 Oct 2026.
- Both started the company their money comes from.
- Amancio Ortega is about 27 years older than Jensen Huang.
- Amancio Ortega is from Spain; Jensen Huang is from United States.
- Jensen Huang has held a public or government advisory role; Amancio Ortega has none on record.
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Side by side
Ortega
HuangThe money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $142BForbes, 6 Oct 2026
- $192BForbes, 15 Oct 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- $126BBloomberg, 9 Oct 2026
- $190BBloomberg, 9 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 10Annual list, 1 Mar 2026
- No. 7Real-Time list, 15 Oct 2026
- Billionaire since
- 2001First year on a Forbes billionaires list: Forbes says he took Inditex public in 2001 and 'debuted on the Forbes billionaires list the same year' (No. 43, $6.6 billion)
- Not stated
Where it came from
- How it started
- Founded itInditex calls him its founder: he started a clothing workshop in 1963, opened the first Zara in 1975, and Inditex was formed as its parent in 1985. Forbes says he co-founded Inditex with his ex-wife Rosalía Mera (d. 2013)
- Co-founded itCo-founded Nvidia in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem (Bloomberg); Nvidia calls him co-founder
- Main source
- Inditex stock, held through Pontegadea Inversiones and PartlerBloomberg: 'The majority of Amancio Ortega's fortune is derived from a 59.3% stake in Inditex'; he has received more than 9 billion euros in dividends since the 2001 IPO, much of it put into property
- Nvidia stockBloomberg: 'The majority of Jensen Huang's fortune is derived from his stake in Nvidia'
- Companies
- InditexInditex: Non-executive proprietary director
- NvidiaNvidia: Founder, president and CEO, and director
- Biggest stake
- Inditex59.294% owned
- Nvidia3.3% owned
The person
- Born
- 28 Mar 1936Busdongo de Arbas, Spain
- 17 Feb 1963Taiwan
- Country
- SpainLives in A Coruña, Spain
- United StatesLives in Los Altos, California, United States
- Education
- No universityLeft school at 12 to work
- Graduate degreeBSEE, Oregon State University; MSEE, Stanford University
- Parents
- Born into a working family; began working in the textile trade at a very young ageParents' occupations not stated
- His father was a chemical engineer and his mother taught grade school
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not a signer
- Not a signer
- Foundation
- Fundación Amancio OrtegaCreated in 2001; works in education and social welfare
- Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- Not stated
Role and record
- Role now
- On the boardNon-executive director of Inditex; chief executive of Pontegadea
- Runs the companyFounder, president and CEO of Nvidia
- Successor
- His daughter Marta Ortega Pérez, non-executive chair of Inditex since April 1, 2022Óscar García Maceiras has been CEO since 2021; his wife Flora Pérez Marcote is also a director
- None namedNo successor named; his daughter Madison Huang (senior director, physical AI product marketing) and son Spencer Huang (product manager, robotics) are employed by Nvidia, per its 2026 proxy; neither is on Nvidia's management team page
- Public office
- None found
- Member, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)2026-
- Legal record
- 2013: Supreme Court of SpainThe Supreme Court rejected his final appeal in a dispute with tax auditors, leaving him to pay 33 million euros in back taxes for 2001 to 2003.
- None found
