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b'Mark Ein on Venus Williams after she won a tie breaker to win the championship and Kastles Tennis\' second perfect season ~\\n\\n". . .she said \'I wasn\'t just doing it for myself. I was doing it for a team. I was doing it for a city. I was doing it for the name on the front of the jersey, not the back.\' She will literally cite that as one of the highlights of her career. For Venus Williams to say that, I think is a great summation of what this can mean to people."\\n\\nMark Ein (right) and Andy Ockershausen (left) in studio\\n\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThis is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town and our special guest is Mark Ein. I\'m going to tell you a little bit about Mark. As I tell everybody, Mark, Our Town includes Annapolis, PG County, it\'s Montgomery. It\'s as far as our signal goes. As you probably know, we have a great signal because once we get up there, it goes all over the world. This is a podcast. Mark was an investor and an entrepreneur. He\'s built companies over the course of his 22 year young career, but that\'s another interview. Today, we\'re here to talk about the man, our neighbor, our friend, the kind of guy who steps up to the plate and bids on lunch with me. Why? I don\'t know, as an auction prize. A sports enthusiast who has done some pretty creative thinking in the sports arena with Kastles Tennis and the World Team Tennis. He\'s a philanthropist. He puts his money up, his energy to educate children in the DC area. Mark Ein, welcome to Our Town.\\nMark Ein:\\tThanks. That was a really generous introduction and I can\'t tell you how happy I am to be here with you, Andy. That auction item, I think, was the single best item I\'ve ever bought at a charity auction. I had so much fun. Every year, I wait for that to come up again so I can get it again.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tWe\'re waiting for Shuster. Yeah. We\'ll come up with something for you.\\nMark Ein:\\tGood.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tThat\'s a real thing that Eric has started for his school and his mother. It was a teacher in a Special Ed out there, but we love that. We love to be involved. One of the secrets of your success, Mark, and we preach this to everybody, you get involved in the community. You\'re not just in it for the rewards. You\'re in it to give. It pays off for you.\\nMark Ein:\\tI appreciate that. I feel really lucky with the life I\'ve been able to have. I grew up in this area. I grew up in Chevy Chase.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tYou\'re Our Town.\\nOn the Giving Culture of Our Town\\nMark Ein:\\tYeah. It has been. The opportunity I had to move back here 25 years ago after being in New York and LA and Philly and Boston, all over the place, and coming back, and the opportunities I\'ve had, I feel so fortunate. One of the great things about this community, you talked about Eric Shuster, yourself, but so many people. Part of the culture of this community, I think, is giving back. That\'s really something that\'s embedded in the people who make this town move and to me, it\'s one of the many things that makes this such a wonderful community to be a part of.\\nThe Reward\\nA Ockershausen:\\tIt\'s amazing the people in your life and you\'ve grown up with and almost universally, they\'re givers and they give back, Mark. The more you give, you get back much more than you ever give.\\nMark Ein:\\tYou know, that is a nice bi-product of it. I think that is the way the world worked. It\'s great that it does. I think when you do it, you have to do it not because you obviously never expect anything to come back, you do it out of genuine care for what you\'re doing. Frankly, the act of giving is the most rewarding part of it. You don\'t need anything back. What you get back is that feeling of helping other people, helping organizations that are making a difference, doing something more than just for yourself. I\'ve been blessed as we all have and I\'m just happy to be in Our Town.\\nA Ockershausen:\\tNo. You made such an impact coming back into Our Town and getting involved, but you give so much through your investment companies ...'