Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran, born on March 10, 1949, is an American businesswoman and investor. She is also a lecturer, consultant, columnist syndicated to a speaker as an author, author, and television personality. In 2001, she launched The Corcoran Group in New York City. The company was sold to the business to NRT for $66 millions. In the following months she resigned from the business. One of the original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank to date. In February 2020 Corcoran was involved in 53 deals, the largest being a $350,000 deal that included 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran is the second of 10 children from a family of Irish Catholics who worked hard was born in Edgewater in New Jersey. Florence, her mother, was a homemaker. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. moved from job to job throughout Corcoran's childhood. Her family frequently relied on free food deliveries from the local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as one who sometimes drank too much and was rude to her mother and contempt, particularly when he'd been drinking. Corcoran struggled in school and later learned that she was dyslexic. Corcoran was educated at a Catholic elementary school, and later began high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. After failing several courses in her first year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School, where she received a grade of D.