Smith Barney, a North Carolina Kid From Duke University

John Mack: I was on a scholarship at Duke, an athletic scholarship, and cracked C5 in my neck. My father had passed away when I was in college, so I needed a job. A guy named Bill Bonner said, look, you know, nothing about the business. So that's how I got involved with the securities business. And then Smith Barney was in town, and they were going to open an office in Atlanta.