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 in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001. She shortly after, she left the company. One of the show's original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank until today. She has participated in 53 deals as of February 2020. The biggest was a $350,000 investment to provide 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was the second of 10 children born to an Irish Catholic couple of working class located in Edgewater, New Jersey. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father, was a skilled worker throughout the years of Corcoran's childhood. The family relied on food deliveries from a friendly local grocer for free food. Corcoran remembers her father as an alcohol-dependent drunkard who often treated her mother with condescension and disrespect, particularly after having consumed alcohol. Corcoran was a struggle throughout her education before discovering that she had dyslexia. Corcoran started high school in St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran was fluent in several courses her first year. She transferred to Leonia High School and graduated with a grade of D.




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