Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10, 1949 in Edgewater, New Jersey) is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker, consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality. As a television personality, she is a "Shark" investor on ABC\'s Shark Tank.\n', '

Raised in Edgewater, New Jersey, Corcoran attended a local Catholic elementary school. She attended St. Cecilia High School in Englewood for her freshman year before flunking out and transferring to Leonia High School, where she tried out to be a cheerleader.\n', '

She graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education in 1971. After graduation, she taught school for a year, but soon moved on working various jobs including a side job renting apartments in New York City. She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973 co-founded a real estate business called The Corcoran-Simonè with her boyfriend, who contributed a $1,000 loan (approximately $5,685.56, inflation-adjusted, 2018). When she split from her boyfriend seven years later, she formed her own firm, The Corcoran Group. In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report covering real estate data trends in New York City.\n', '

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