The term is the full form of "fear of a better option." In an interview with HuffPost, author and venture capitalist Patrick ...

[Read: Americans need to party more] When the author and speaker Patrick McGinnis coined the term FOMO, he didn’t consider the fear a sinister force. He was a wide-eyed business-school student ...

Patrick J. McGinnis Patrick is a venture capitalist and the author of Fear of Missing Out: Practical Decision-Making in a World of Overwhelming Choice and the host of the hit podcast FOMO Sapiens .