Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10, 1949) is an American businesswoman investor, speaker, consultant writer, syndicated columnist, TV personality, author and author. She co-founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage located in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter , the company was sold. Corcoran has been a part of 12 of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. She has participated in 53 deals since February of 2020. The biggest was a $350,000 investment to cover 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was the second of 10 kids born to an Irish Catholic couple of working class located in Edgewater, New Jersey. Florence was her mother. She was a household worker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father, was a skilled worker throughout the years of Corcoran's childhood. Her family sometimes depended on free food delivery from a friendly local grocery store. Corcoran is still able to remember her father as someone who drank occasionally and treated her mother with disrespect. Corcoran struggled in school, and was later told that she was dyslexic. Corcoran began in high school at St. Cecilia High School Englewood after attending a Catholic primary school. Corcoran was a failure in several courses in her first year of high school, was moved to Leonia High School. There, she received a D.