[tymekpavel]

See the comments below - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26905472

~$200 for a 6-piece sushi roll.

[robotpony]

That's less bad than I thought the early pricing would be (and isn't far from the highest end sushi I've seen around the west coast here).

[ac29]

Its an order of magnitude higher than traditional salmon nigiri would cost though ($2-3/piece in a restaurant).

[marricks]

Ok, well that's way less than thousands of dollars so it's a start!

Not to mention, they probably haven't realized the economies of scale yet at all.

[intricatedetail]

Exactly. Also if you decided to go on a boat and catch one yourself that easily could end up in thousands...

[jimbokun]

Is there hope for some kind of law for the price steadily decreasing over time as efficiencies improve, like Moore's law for computer chips or the exponential increase of solar efficiency?

[Symmetry]

The industry term for how prices drop as you make more of something is the "learning curve".

[digikata]

I've seen that in the scope of the technology life-cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_life_cycle

Once it's taken off sometimes there is reference to the the manufacturing s-curve. That would be on the Wikipedia chart, going from when the R&D has traction to where increasing scaling increases volume and reduces costs of the product.

[hutzlibu]

Sure, like with anything that goes into mass production.

But before that happens, the process needs to be understood and not rely on rare ingredients, for which production also needs to scale up. Are there big suppliers of salmon stemcells?

[Plough_Jogger]

Yes, see Wright's Law: https://ark-invest.com/wrights-law/