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. Patrick coined the ...

Where it may have started with the bigger things, one day, you may realize you’ve been standing in the breakfast cereal aisle ...

This term for “the fear of missing out” even made it into dictionaries ... making a decision,” author and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis told HuffPost. “This specifically refers ...

Fewer marketers know about FOBO, Fear of a Better Option. Patrick J. McGinnis, author of Fear of Missing Out, coined both terms. While FOMO can be a sales accelerator, FOBO works in the opposite ...

Forget “fear ... missing out.” The latest anxiety-inducing trend is “FOBO” — or “fear of a better option.” In other words, people are constantly ruminating on the “what if ...