Barbara Corcoran Biography
Barbara Corcoran (middle name Ann) is an American businesswoman, investor, author, and television personality. She is popularly known as an investor in the TV show Shark Tank. Besides her busy career, she manages to be a consultant and a columnist for popular magazines.
She was brought up in Edgewater, New Jersey. She went to a local Catholic elementary school. She later joined St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. After graduating from high school, Barbara enrolled at St. Thomas Aquinas College where she successfully graduated with a degree in education in 1971.
Shortly after her graduation, she taught school for a year, then landed various jobs including a side job renting apartments in New York City.
Barbara Corcoran Age
Corcoran was born on the 10th of March 1949, Edgewater, New Jersey, U.S.
Barbara Corcoran Family
Barbara’s dad was employed at a printing press while her mom was a housewife. Barbara and her nine other siblings were brought up in Edgewater, New Jersey.
Barbara Corcoran Husband | Bill Higgins
Corcoran currently resides in Manhattan with her husband, Bill Higgins. Her husband Bill is a retired Navy captain who participated in the Persian Gulf War. He is also a former F.B.I. agent. The couple got married in 1988.
Barbara Corcoran Children | Daughter | Son
Barbara gave birth to their firstborn son Tom in 1994. Her pregnancy was via in-vitro fertilization — with an egg donated by her sister. The couple later adopted a daughter named Kate.
Barbara Corcoran Real Estate
Corcoran started her career back in the 1970s with real estate. She then became a television personality as a “Shark” investor on ABC’s Shark Tank.
Since she eagerly wanted to be her own boss, she went ahead to co-found a real estate company called The Corcoran-Simonè with her boyfriend. Simon had contributed a $1,000 loan which served as there start-up capital.
When she separated from her boyfriend years later, she founded her own company, The Corcoran Group. Since she was quite knowledgeable in the real estate field she started publishing The Corcoran Report. The report was covering real estate data trends in New York City.
In 2001, Corcoran sold her entire company to real estate giants NRT. The value of the transaction was estimated at $66 million. But according to Bloomberg, the company was valued at $4 billion.
Barbara is a columnist for More Magazine, The Daily Review, and Redbook. She has also written many books and has been featured in several shows including the show Larry King Life. She has been invited as a guest business speaker at various real estate events.
Corcoran is also a business consultant. She does her consulting and television production business through her company Barbara Corcoran Inc. She is the real estate contributor to NBC’s Today show. She hosts a TV show, The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran on CNBC. Barbara also writes a weekly column in the New York Daily News.
Barbara Corcoran From Shark Tank
Corcoran has been an investor on ABC’s three-time Emmy award-winning show Shark Tank for nine seasons. She has made more than 50 deals on the show, her biggest deal being with the company Coverplay for $350,000. Her average investment size is $103,113 and the median value of her investments is $75,000. While on air, she has pledged more than $5.4 million in investments.
Barbara Corcoran Net Worth
Barbara has an estimated net worth of $80 million as of 2018.
Barbara Corcoran Book | Story
Corcoran’s story of grass to grace is the main also subject of her bestselling book, Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business! The book was launched in 2011. Just a year and a half following the premiere of Shark Tank.
The book was co-written by Bruce Littlefield, with whom she collaborated on a previous book, If You Don’t Have Big Breasts, Put Ribbons on Your Pigtails: And Other Lessons I Learned from My Mom. The book, 320 pages in length, is hailed as a National Bestseller and received fabulous reviews.
Barbara Corcoran Young
Corcoran got straight D’s in high school and college and held 20 jobs before the age of 23. In 1973, she borrowed $1000 from her then-boyfriend to start a real-estate empire. She kept her business alive through the stock market crash of 1987 by mortgaging her country home, selling her one-bedroom co-op, and teaching real estate courses at New York University.
Corcoran eventually sold her company to the real estate behemoth NRT for $66 million in September 2001 — two days before the terrorist attacks. In 2009, she first appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank, where she continues to make deals with entrepreneurs. Here, the real-estate mogul and celebrity investor reflects on the skills and lessons she wishes she knew as a young entrepreneur.
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Corcoran Twitter
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