San Antonio drew national attention by hosting its fair share of celebrities in 2025. Kodak Black, Melii, and the social media-famous AMP streaming group all roamed the same highways we find too congested. It takes a village to put a Texas town on the map, but one resident—who is no doubt pulling their weight—has had a goal to make it happen since they were a child.
Jordan Zapata, now 28, spent much of his childhood on the city’s west side with his siblings, mom, and dad, who worked several jobs to pay for the roof over their heads. Today, his corporate duties range from securing a last-minute, local private chef for Van Diesel to finding talent to convincing Spurs legend Tony Parker to let a group of twenty-something-year-old pranksters stay in his roughly $19.5 million home. How’d he get here?
Zapata was an ambitious kid. Not in the way every parent believes of their kin, but in the boots on the ground, roaming the city for business opportunities in places they are probably still too young to be…