The Amicus Brief
This is a sad week for America.
Last year, Molecule proudly joined over 150 tech companies in filing an amicus brief against the executive order that essentially restricts immigration and travel along religious and ethnic lines. This issue hits at the heart of what Molecule, as a company, stands for and against. Protesting the Order demonstrates our commitment to doing right by our employees and our customers.
When we established our core values, we committed to embodying them and using them to guide our actions and decisions. The executive order flies in the face of several of our values. We don’t want to be one of those organizations that says they have values, but then does nothing with them except putting them on a website and handing out a poster to new employees (please note: our values are on our website, and you can read them here). Our core values mandate that we take action against the executive order.
Our team embraces diversity. This isn’t just a motherhood-and-apple-pie value for us. Diversity strengthens our product and our productivity -- thus strengthening the company’s bottom line. Through diverse experiences and points of view, we improve our UI/UX to make beautiful (and the best) software. It helps us spot creative solutions to difficult challenges.
We hire the best Molecules and strive to be world-class. We want to employ the absolute best, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nation of origin, and several other factors. The executive order will restrict our ability to create the best software and deliver the best solutions to our customers.
Amazingly talented individuals make up the Molecule team, and our customers are incredibly smart. Our team is composed of people born in the US and in other countries. Some of us are immigrants, children of immigrants, and grandchildren of immigrants. Some of us are married to immigrants. The same is true for our customers. We defend their freedom to work to create the life they want.
Our employees, customers, and community should know that we will stand up for them. We remain committed to defending everyone’s right to “sit at the table” -- except those who flout the law and those who promote hate and fear.
Fighting immigration policy that discriminates along religious, ethnic, and other arbitrary lines is the f-ing right thing to do. Molecule is committed to doing the right thing, regardless of politics or popularity. We will continue to stand up for what’s right, for decency, and for tolerance.
