Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a businesswoman, investor and speaker from the United America. She co-founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001 and shortly after, she left the company. One of the original "Shark" investors, Corcoran has appeared in every season of ABC's Shark Tank until today. Corcoran has signed 53 deals as of February, 2020. The biggest deal she signed was her investment of $350,000 in Coverplay for 40%. Corcoran was the second of the family of 10 children who was born in Edgewater. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mother and also a housekeeper. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was a mover from one job to the next during Corcoran’s childhood. Her family frequently depended on food delivery services for free from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as an alcohol-dependent drunkard who often treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, especially when he had been drinking. Corcoran was struggling in school, and was later told that she had dyslexia. Corcoran began high school at St. Cecilia High School Englewood, after she left her Catholic elementary school. After failing several courses in her first year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School in Leonia, where she graduated as a D student.