Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran, born March 10, 1949 is an American businesswoman and investor. She is also a public speaker and consultant, a columnist syndicated to a speaker as an author, author, and television presenter. 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 after, she left the company. Corcoran was a participant in 12 of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. In February of 2020, she had completed 53 deals. The largest of these was a purchase of $350,000 for Coverplay at 40 percent. Corcoran was the second of a family of 10 kids born to an Irish-Catholic couple working in the middle class located in Edgewater, New Jersey. [8] Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. his father was a skilled worker throughout Corcoran's childhood. The family relied on food delivered by the local grocer who would deliver free food. Corcoran recalls her father as a man who sometimes was a drinker and did her mother a disservice and contempt, particularly when he'd been drinking. Corcoran struggled throughout her schooling and later discovered that she had dyslexia. Corcoran attended a Catholic elementary school, and later began high school in Englewood at St. Cecilia High School. Corcoran who was in the process of failing many classes during her first year of high school, was transferred to Leonia High School. There she received a grade of D.