About Remilon

History & Vision

Paired Working Stations

How We Started…

In 2002, after experiencing the financial burden of rising college textbook costs, Adrian Ridner and Ben Wilson, two classmates at Cal Poly State University — San Luis Obispo, found a way to save students money. Adrian and Ben helped lead the launch of a free website that would eventually become a widely used textbook exchange allowing college students to buy, sell and trade textbooks with their peers. By using technology and innovation to effectively by-pass the local bookstores, students who used the free service were able to save hundreds of dollars each year.

The two were proud to be helping students, but both realized there was a much larger problem in education: it wasn't just barriers to books that confronted students but barriers to all kinds of education resources. For Adrian and Ben, solving the problem of education access became their mission, and it signaled the start of their flagship site, Education-Portal.com.

Helping Students Make Life-Shaping Decisions

Soon after Education-Portal.com was launched, we began to publish non-biased, original content to help education seekers make life-shaping decisions about their academic and career paths. As our library of content grew, we became recognized as a trusted source of information by libraries, government agencies, and universities around the world. Over the years, our websites have enjoyed steady organic traffic growth and now reach over 4.5+ million monthly education seekers.

The Dream That Drives Us…

As a true self-funded start up, Remilon began with one dream, one garage and one mission: making education accessible to everyone, everywhere. To deliver on this promise we continue to work hard…

  1. Reducing the Cost of Higher Education

    College tuition is skyrocketing and becoming out of reach to many students. Education Portal Academy is our solution to this problem. The academy offers free courses, free test prep and the lowest cost path to college credit in the U.S. Our courses allow students to save thousands of dollars by testing out of their college general education requirements.

  2. Fighting Poverty with Education

    Cal Poly Donation

    To close the gap between access and opportunity, we have given over $30,000 in academic scholarships and donated $35,000 to help build public computer labs. We have also donated or pledged over $70,000 to charitable organizations such as The Riecken Foundation, which builds community-supported rural libraries in the poorest regions of Central America.

    A message from Riecken Foundation's CEO

    "As President and CEO of The Riecken Foundation, I have to say it has been a pleasure to work with and receive the support from the people at Remilon, LLC. Riecken, through its 64 community libraries, works closely with education and technology in impoverished communities in Honduras and Guatemala. The entire team at Remilon has taken time and provided financial support to Riecken for the last two years. The constant communication and warm reception Riecken receives in the Remilon offices and on its blog strengthens the community network of libraries where access to information and education are luxuries. I only wish other companies would follow the Remilon team's example of corporate responsibility."

    Bill Cartwright, President and CEO, The Riecken Foundation, (Teguciglapa, Honduras and Antigua, Guatemala)

    Other education charities we financially support include:

    We look forward to expanding both our scholarship and charitable giving programs in the years to come.

Company Culture:

Ping Pong

Remilon is a culture-first organization, meaning we don't compromise our core values to achieve short-term gain. Even though we have been in business for almost ten years, we still maintain a small, start-up atmosphere where everyone works hard and has a good time doing it. We take pride in our culture of "no red tape", and we achieve results by being small enough to be flexible yet large enough to get things done..

Executive Team