Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran, born March 10, 1949 is an American businesswoman and investor. She is also a public speaker and consultant, a columnist syndicated to a speaker as an author, author, and television personality. 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. She shortly after, she left the company. One of the show's first "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in every season of ABC's Shark Tank until now. She has been involved in 53 deals since February 2020. The most significant was a $350,000 investment that will pay for 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran, who was the second child of 10 from a family of Irish Catholics who worked hard, was born in Edgewater in New Jersey. Florence Corcoran's mother was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was constantly moving between jobs and the next throughout Corcoran's early years. In times, her family relied on the delivery of free food from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as a man who sometimes was a drinker and was rude to her mother and contempt, particularly after he'd consumed alcohol. Corcoran struggled with her education and was later diagnosed with dyslexia. Corcoran started the high school system in St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran was a failure in many classes during her freshman year, moved to Leonia High School. There, she received a D.