Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a businesswoman, investor and speaker from the United States. She 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 exited the company. Corcoran has participated in 12 of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. By February 2020, she had signed 53 deals. One of them was a purchase of $350,000 for Coverplay at 40 percent. Corcoran was the second of a family of 10 children born to a working class Irish-Catholic couple living in Edgewater, New Jersey. Florence Corcoran's mother was a housewife. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was constantly switching jobs throughout Corcoran's entire life. Her family frequently relied on free food deliveries from a local grocer. Corcoran recalls her father, who was a drunk at times excessively, and behaved towards her mother in a manner that was disrespectful and condescendingly, particularly after he'd consumed some drinks. Corcoran struggled with her education and was later diagnosed with dyslexia. Corcoran was a student at an Catholic elementary school in her neighborhood and began high school at St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. After failing several courses in her first year of high school, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School, where she was a D-student when she graduated.