Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10, 1949. She is an American investor as well as a speaker and 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. She shortly thereafter exited the company. Corcoran is one of ABC’s original Shark Tank investors. As of now she has appeared on each season of Shark Tank. As of February 2020 she had completed 53 deals. One of them 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 was her mother, who was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father, was a skilled worker throughout Corcoran's early years. The family relied sometimes on free delivery of food from a friendly local supermarket. Corcoran recalls her father, one who would drink excessively, and treated her mother in a manner that was disrespectful and condescendingly, particularly after he'd had some drinks. Corcoran was a struggle in school and later learned that she had dyslexia. Corcoran started high school in St. Cecilia High School Englewood following her departure from her Catholic elementary school. After flunking several courses during her freshman year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School in Leonia, where she received a grade of D.