About
I'm drawn to the seams between disciplines.
Working across finance, design, and digital growth, and writing about the systems that keep paying off.
Mindset
Building from zero, out loud.
No shortcuts, no pretending I've arrived. The discipline comes first, the money follows, and the story gets told along the way. I'd rather be the engine than the helper.

Where a financial model meets an interface. Where a brand meets a growth loop. Where a manual process meets a few lines of code. The interesting problems tend to live in those overlaps — and so does the leverage.
I design and build systems across finance, product design, and growth — and write about how they fit together. In practice that runs from a forecasting model to a design system to a distribution loop. Right now I'm focused on capital allocation frameworks and the design systems around them — plus writing more of it down.
The road here
Every page I built started at zero.
A drawing page at 14. Quotes pages through school. Then finance — and it finally compounded. Here's the whole run.
- 2019
2019 · 9th grade
First Instagram + a drawing page
Zero followers, zero plan. Just posting sketches because it was fun.
- 2020
2020 · 10th grade
First quotes page — and first money
Started a quotes page. Got paid to make quotes posts for a bigger one. First rupee earned from content.
- ’20–’22
’20–’22 · 11th – 12th
Off the grid
Two years away from Instagram. Head down on school.
- 2022
2022 · College · 1st year
Back on — a page about love
Restarted from zero with a relatable quotes page. Rebuilt the posting muscle.
- 2023
2023 · College · 2nd year
Freelancing + app development
Learned to build. Freelance work and shipping apps — the maker years.
- Jan 2026
Jan 2026 · College · 4th year
The finance page — @berjil_jacob
The pivot. Storytelling finance for a Tamil audience. This is where it got serious.
- 10K
10K · March 2026
Crossed 10,000 followers
Weeks in, the hooks started landing. The account had a pulse.
- 20K
20K · July 2026
Crossed 20,000 followers
Doubled by mid-year. Proof the engine actually works.
- Soon
Soon · Next
YouTube — long-form finance
Documentary-style videos. Another zero, on purpose.
How I'm wired
One question in. Five obsessions out.
Fitness, finance, wealth, tech, geopolitics — I don't treat these as separate subjects. They're the same story about how the world actually works, and I'm learning all five out loud, from zero.
“Can discipline actually be trained?”