Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10 1949) is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant writer, syndicated columnist, TV personality, author and author. In 2001, she launched The Corcoran Group in New York City. The company was sold to the company to NRT for $66 millions. In the following months she resigned from the company. One of the show's original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in the entire 12 seasons of ABC's Shark Tank until today. Corcoran had signed 53 contracts in February of 2020. Her biggest deal was her investment of $350,000 in Coverplay for 40%. Corcoran is the second child of 10 from a working-class Irish-Catholic family, was born in Edgewater in New Jersey. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and also a housekeeper. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father, was a multi-talented worker throughout the years of Corcoran's childhood. Her family depended sometimes on food deliveries from the local grocer who would deliver free food. Corcoran says her father was a drunken man who treated her mother with disrespectful and disrespect. Corcoran was a struggling student throughout school. Later, she discovered she had dyslexia. Corcoran began high school at St. Cecilia High School Englewood after she had left her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran was a failure in several courses in her first year of high school, was moved to Leonia High School. There she was awarded a D.