Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a businesswoman, investor and speaker from the United America. She was the founder of 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 , the company was sold. Corcoran was one of ABC's initial Shark investors was a featured guest of each episode of Shark Tank. In February of 2020, she had completed 53 deals. The largest of these was a purchase of $350,000 in Coverplay at 40%. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second of ten children from a working-class Irish Catholic family. Florence Corcoran's mother was an exemplary household worker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was a mover between jobs and the next during Corcoran’s childhood. Her family sometimes depended on food delivery for free from a nearby grocery store. Corcoran claims her father was drunk who did her mother a disservice and condescension. Corcoran was a struggling pupil throughout her schooling. She later discovered that she was dyslexic. Corcoran was a student at a local Catholic elementary school, and then began the high school system in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran dropped several classes during her first year before transferring to Leonia High School where she was a D student.