Terry Farrugia didn't just run a radio station — he built a personality-driven brand at a time when Maltese radio was content to be background noise. Frank Zammit says without Terry's vision, Vibe FM would never have been what it became.
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Before his radio career fully took off, Frank spent five formative years at Stargate — a company founded by an American in Pasadena that eventually set up operations in Malta to serve the European production market. The work was primarily visual effects, serving major US and European network productions. The highlight was a trip to London to work on a Sky network series that featured Rob Lowe, Megan Mullally, and a significant cast, giving Frank a firsthand look at how international television production actually worked at scale. The contrast with the Maltese industry was stark: resources, processes, professional expectations, and the sheer scale of ambition were operating on entirely different planes. It was an education in what was possible, and also a reminder of how much smaller Malta's media landscape really was.
Frank's five years at Stargate took him to London to work on a high-profile Sky network series featuring Rob Lowe and Megan Mullally. It was a crash course in international production — and in how much bigger the world is than Malta.
Frank worked for five years at Stargate, a Malta-based visual effects and production company with roots in Pasadena, before his radio career took off.
Terry Farrugia is credited by Frank as the person who built and shaped Vibe FM's vision and personality-driven brand identity.
Sam built Algrow, a SaaS for finding viral content formats, with zero coding experience using ChatGPT and Cursor. Six months later: 10,000 users, $14K/month in revenue.
Sam's first MVP threw an application error on its very first user — and he shipped it anyway. The core idea worked, and that was enough to validate the product and keep users coming back.
Sam joined Discord voice chats, muted himself, and silently screen-shared his product. Users in the chat started tagging him asking what the tool was. No pitch needed — curiosity did the selling.
Most founders post links in Discord and immediately get banned for self-promotion. Sam's approach was the opposite: build rapport, help people with the tool, let word of mouth do the work.
Find where your ICP lives. Listen before building. Validate with DMs and Loom recordings. Build in public with users inside your own Discord server. Turn early adopters into advocates with free access.
Instead of fearing the self-promo ban in large Discord servers, create your own private server for your product. You funnel in ideal customers and build a relationship that email can't replicate.
Algrow helps creators find and replicate viral video formats, starting at $25/month. It analyzes subscriber counts, average views, and trending formats — and can even generate the videos with AI.
After weeks of Sam silently screen-sharing in a Discord server, the server owner — unprompted — made a full YouTube promotional video about Algrow. Sam paid nothing and asked for nothing.
Producer Gus admits Discord never crossed his mind as a customer acquisition channel. Pat connects the insight to a broader lesson: match your distribution channel to where your actual customers live.
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