Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was born on March 10, 1949. She is an American investor and speaker as well as consultant. She co-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. One of the show's first "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in every season of ABC's Shark Tank until now. In February of 2020, she's signed 53 deals for the show, with the most significant being a $350,000 investment in 40% of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater (New Jersey) as the second child of ten from a working-class Irish Catholic family. Florence was her mother. She was an excellent household worker. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., bounced from job to job throughout Corcoran's early years. Sometimes, the family relied on deliveries of food that was free from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as an alcohol-dependent drunkard who often treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, particularly after the fact that he was drinking. Corcoran struggled throughout her schooling and later discovered that she was dyslexic. Corcoran began in high school at St. Cecilia High School Englewood after attending a Catholic primary school. After failing several classes during her first year of high school, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School and graduated as a D student.