About Barbara Corcoran - Shark Tank -

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

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 Group with her wealthy boyfriend, who fronted a $1000 loan (approximately $5,000, inflation-adjusted). In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City.

In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to the giant NRT Incorporated for $66 million