Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born March 10 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. She co-founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly thereafter , the company was sold. Corcoran was one of the original Shark Tank investors. She has appeared on every season of ABC's Shark Tank. Corcoran had signed 53 contracts in February of 2020. Her largest deal was her $350,000 investment in Coverplay with a 40% stake. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the youngest of 10 children in a middle class Irish-Catholic family. Florence Corcoran's mom, was a housewife. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. his father was a multi-talented worker throughout the years of Corcoran's childhood. Her family often depended on food delivery services for free from a local grocer. Corcoran recalls her father as one who often was a drinker and treated her mother with disrespect and sneer, especially when he'd been drinking. Corcoran struggled at school and later learned that she had dyslexia. Corcoran was educated in a Catholic elementary school and then enrolled in high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. Corcoran dropped a few classes during her first year, and then transferred to Leonia High School where she was a D student.