Barbara Ann Corcoran 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.
Barbara Corcoran’s Net Worth 2019: $80 Million
The New Jersey native attended St. Thomas Aquinas College with a degree in education. However, after teaching for one year, she transitioned to business. She later became a “shark” investor on Shark Tank; Corcoran has invested in more than twenty businesses to date. As of 2017, one of the heralded faces of Shark Tank is worth $80 million.
1970’s-2001
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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 boyfriend, who fronted a $1,000 loan. In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report on real estate data trends in New York City. However, in 2001, Corcoran sold her business to NRT Incorporated for $66 million.
2002-Present
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Shark Tank is an American reality television series that premiered on August 9, 2009, on ABC. Corcoran was a member or “shark” for the past nine seasons. To date, she has invested in more than 20 businesses. In September 2017 Corcoran was announced as a contestant on season 25 of Dancing with the Stars, where she was partnered with Keo Motsepe. She is the third Shark Tank “shark”—after Mark Cuban and Robert Herjavec—to take part.
2018
With ‘the best email’ of her life as she told AARP Barbara Corcoran landed her spot on ‘Shark Tank’.
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2019
Barbara Corcoran gives her most trusted parenting advice, explaining why having your children learn to overcome struggle is important.