Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman. She founded 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 exited the company. Corcoran was a participant in 12 episodes of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. By 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 child of ten in an Irish-Catholic working class family. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., her father, was constantly changing jobs throughout Corcoran's entire life. Her family frequently depended on food delivery services for free from the local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as an alcohol-dependent drunkard who often treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, especially when having consumed alcohol. Corcoran was a troubled pupil throughout her schooling. She later discovered that she had dyslexia. Corcoran went to the local Catholic elementary school before beginning the high school system in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. Corcoran dropped several classes during her first year, and then transferred to Leonia High School where she was a D student.