FOMO co-founder Se Yong says traders are becoming the next generation of internet celebrities

FOMO co-founder Se Yong used a 43-minute interview with host Maurits to lay out what the mobile social trading app is trying to build, why it took longer than outsiders think to find product-market fit, and why he believes public trading records can turn traders into public figures. He said FOMO has grown to more than 1.3 million users in 18 months, is adding about 30,000 users a day recently, generated more than $2 million in fees this week, and is now valued at $550 million. Se Yong described FOMO not as another crypto terminal but as “a trading app for the rest of us,” built around a broader ambition to become the social graph of finance. He linked that vision to a product design philosophy centered on trust, simple cash-denominated balances, fast cross-chain execution, and social transparency through leaderboards and public P&L. The interview also covered his own trading background, the missed Base memecoin trade that helped spark the idea for FOMO, his list of top traders and creators, the early beta rollout of Clans, and his view that crypto onboarding is shifting away from Crypto Twitter toward TikTok, Instagram, and word of mouth. Across the conversation, Se Yong returned to the same point: users, influence, and public transparency matter more to FOMO than status metrics alone.