Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a speaker, investor, and businesswoman from the United States. The Corcoran Group, an NYC real estate brokerage was established by Corcoran. NRT bought it in 2001 for $66 million. Corcoran later left the business. Corcoran was among the original Shark Tank investors. She has appeared on every season of ABC's Shark Tank. As of February 2020 she had completed 53 deals. The largest of these was a $350,000 investment to Coverplay at 40%. Corcoran was the second of a family of 10 children born to an Irish-Catholic couple working in the middle class in Edgewater, New Jersey. Florence Corcoran was Florence's mom and a homemaker. Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., bounced from job to job throughout Corcoran's childhood. Her family depended sometimes on food deliveries from an artisanal local grocery store for free food. Corcoran recalls that her father was an alcohol-dependent drunkard who often treated her mother with disrespect and disrespect, especially after he had been drinking. Corcoran was a troubled student throughout school. Later, she discovered she had dyslexia. Corcoran went to a Catholic primary school within her neighborhood and began high school in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran, who had failed several courses in her first year of high school, was moved to Leonia High School. There she received a grade of D.