Hult

A team of Mexican entrepreneurs were the winners of the 2019 Hult Prize -- a $1 million award presented each year to aspiring young visionaries from around the world who are creating businesses with a positive social impact.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who’s been a major supporter of the Hult Prize since its inception in 2009, announced the winners.

"I was an investment banker, the child of refugees, who felt unfulfilled with their own life and my contribution to society,” he said. “So I felt young people had to choose: be good or be cold-hearted investment bankers. So I created The Hult Prize as a platform to equip them, arm them, and then deploy capital to these young people and their ideas; capital that can help them change the world."

Previous Hult Prize winners have included people like Mohammed Ashour, co-founder and CEO of the Aspire Food Group, which harvests crickets as a source of protein to feed the world.

The theme for the 2020 Hult Prize is the issue of climate change.