Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on the 10th of March, 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. The Corcoran Group was a New York City real estate brokerage she established. NRT purchased it for $66million in 2001. Corcoran later left the business. Corcoran, one of ABC's original Shark investors was a featured guest of every episode of Shark Tank. As of February 2020, she had signed 53 deals for the show, with the biggest one being $350,000 to purchase 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second of ten children in an Irish-Catholic working class family. Florence was her mother, who was an errand-taker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. became her father throughout Corcoran's childhood. The family relied sometimes on the free delivery of food from a local grocery store. Corcoran remembers her father as a man who often drank too much and did her mother a disservice and condescension, particularly when he'd been drinking. Corcoran was struggling at school and later found out that she was dyslexic. Corcoran started high school at St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. Corcoran graduated from Leonia High School with a degree in English after having failed several classes during her first year.