Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman. She was the founder of The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001. She shortly thereafter exited the company. Corcoran, one of ABC's original Shark investors was a featured guest of each episode of Shark Tank. In February of 2020 Corcoran had signed 53 deals, with the biggest being a $350,000 deal that covered 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second child of ten in a Catholic Irish working class family. Florence was her mother, who was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., her father, was constantly switching jobs throughout Corcoran's entire life. Her family frequently depended on food delivery services for free from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father, a man who sometimes drank too much and treated her mother disrespectfully and condescendingly, especially after he'd consumed some drinks. Corcoran struggled through her schooling before discovering that she was dyslexic. She was a student at an area Catholic elementary school and started high school in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran was a failure in numerous classes in her freshman year, moved to Leonia High School. There she received a grade of D.


                              

                              






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