Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman. The Corcoran Group was a New York City real estate brokerage that she founded. NRT purchased it for $66 million in 2001. Corcoran later left the business. Corcoran has been a part of 12 episodes of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. Since February of 2020, she has made 53 deals with the show, the largest one being $350,000 for 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was the second in the family of 10 children and was raised in Edgewater. Florence was her mother. She was an exemplary household worker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was constantly moving between jobs and the next throughout Corcoran's youth. Her family frequently relied on free food deliveries from a local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father, one who would drink too much, and treated her mother with disrespect and condescendingly, especially after he'd had some drinks. Corcoran had difficulty in school, and she was later told she was dyslexic. Corcoran started the high school system in St. Cecilia High School Englewood following her departure from her Catholic elementary school. After failing several classes during her freshman year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School and was a D-student when she graduated.