March 31, 2026

Three-Dimensional Unit Economics: The Compute Cost of Retention

Why AI-native apps need a new financial framework. And a new metric to run it. The Two-Dimensional World We Built Mobile On For most of the last decade, the financial architecture of a mobile app or gaming studio rested on two numbers: Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Lifetime Value (LTV)....

Author
Martin Macmillan
CEO and Founder, Pollen VC
February 25, 2025

The Definitive Guide to Selecting a Mobile Financing Partner

The market for new ways to fund mobile user acquisition is exploding. But there is still a lot of confusion among publishers about the different financial products and how to understand the pros and cons of each of them. We created this definitive guide to funding mobile user acquisition to...

Author
Martin Macmillan
CEO and Founder, Pollen VC