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. The Corcoran Group is a New York City-based real-estate brokerage. In 2001, it was transferred to NRT at $66 million. Corcoran resigned from the company within a short time. Corcoran is one of ABC’s first Shark Tank investors. As of now she has appeared in every 12 season of Shark Tank. In February 2020 Corcoran was involved in 53 deals, the largest being a $350,000 investment which covered 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran is the second of 10 children from a Catholic family with a low-income was born in Edgewater in New Jersey. Florence was her mother. She was an exemplary homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was constantly moving between jobs and another throughout Corcoran’s childhood. The family relied on the food provided by an artisanal local grocery store for free food. Corcoran remembers her father as one who occasionally drank too much and was rude to her mother and contempt, particularly when he'd been drinking. Corcoran struggled in school, and eventually discovered that she had dyslexia. Corcoran entered the high school system at St. Cecilia High School Englewood after she had left her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran was absent from several classes in her first year and transferred to Leonia High School where she was a D student.