Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman. She was the founder of The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001. She shortly after, she left the company. Corcoran has participated in 12 episodes of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. In February of 2020, Corcoran had made 53 deals, the largest being a $350,000 deal that covered 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second of 10 children in a middle class Irish-Catholic family. Florence Corcoran's mother was an errand-taker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. her father, was a skilled worker throughout the years of Corcoran's childhood. The family relied on food deliveries from a friendly local grocer for free food. Corcoran is still able to remember her father as someone who drank occasionally and did not treat her mother with respect. Corcoran was a struggle throughout her education and later discovered that she had dyslexia. Corcoran began high school in St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran, who had failed several courses in her first year of high school, was moved to Leonia High School. There she was awarded a D.