Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran was a speaker, investor, and businesswoman from the United America. She founded The Corcoran Group, a real estate brokerage located in New York City, which she sold to NRT for $66 million in 2001. She shortly thereafter , the company was sold. Corcoran has been a part of 12 episodes of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. She has participated in 53 deals since February, 2020. The most significant was a $350,000 purchase to cover 40 percent of Coverplay. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the youngest of 10 children in a middle class Irish-Catholic family. Florence Corcoran's mother was a homemaker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He moved between jobs and another throughout Corcoran's early years. Her family often relied on free delivery of food from a friendly local supermarket. Corcoran still remembers her father as someone who was drunk often and did not treat her mother with respect. Corcoran struggled in school, and she discovered later that she was dyslexic. Corcoran was a student at an Catholic primary school within her area and started the high school year in St. Cecilia High School, Englewood. Corcoran graduated from Leonia High School with a degree in English after having failed several classes during her first year of high school.



                                 






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