Today marks 25 years since Infosys, the marquee IT services company in India, started trading on the stock exchange.

This is being treated as a landmark by most media outlets because the general consensus is that Infosys, more than any other, is the Indian company that changed the way India Inc. did business. As the Economic Times put it, “Democratisation of wealth creation suddenly looked cool.”

It took computer nerds to infuse some cool into wealth creation in India. Let that sink in...