Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman from America. 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 thereafter , the company was sold. Corcoran has been a part of 12 episodes of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. Corcoran has signed 53 deals as of February 2020. Her largest deal was her $350,000 investment in Coverplay with a 40% stake. Corcoran was the second of a family of 10 children born to an Irish Catholic couple of working class in Edgewater, New Jersey.  Her mother, Florence, was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father through Corcoran's early years. In times, her family relied on the delivery of food for free from a local grocery store. Corcoran remembers her father as a drunkard who sometimes treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, particularly after the fact that he was drinking. Corcoran was struggling at school and discovered later she was dyslexic. Corcoran attended the local Catholic elementary school, and then began the high school system in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. After failing several courses in her freshman year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School and graduated as a D student.