Who is Barbara Corcoran?
A: Barbara Ann Corcoran is an American businesswoman, investor, speaker,
consultant, syndicated columnist, author, and television personality.
One of the show's original "Shark" investors, Corcoran
has appeared in how many seasons of ABC's Shark Tank to date?
A: All 12.
As of February 2020, she has made how many deals on the
show?
A: 53.
What was the largest?
A: A $350,000 investment for 40% of Coverplay.
Corcoran is a columnist for whom?
A: More, The Daily Review, and Redbook.
She writes a weekly column in what?
A: The New York Daily News and has written several books.
She has been featured on what two TV shows?
A: Larry King Live and NBC's Today show.
Corcoran hosts what show?
A: The Millionaire Broker with Barbara Corcoran on CNBC.
Where was Corcoran born?
A: In Edgewater, New Jersey.
She was the second of how many children in a
working-class Irish-Catholic family?
A: 10.
Her mother, Florence, was a what?
A: A homemaker.
Her father, Edwin W. Corcoran Jr., bounced from job to
job throughout what?
A: Corcoran's childhood.
At times, her family relied on what?
A: Deliveries of free
food from a friendly local grocer.
Corcoran remembers her father as a man who what?
A: Occasionally drank too much and treated her mother with disrespect and
condescension, particularly when he'd been drinking.
Corcoran struggled throughout her schooling, later
learning that she had what?
A: Dyslexia.
She attended a local Catholic elementary school and
started high school where?
A: At St. Cecilia High School in Englewood.
After flunking several courses during her freshman
year, Corcoran transferred to where?
A: Leonia High School, where she graduated as a D student.
Corcoran graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas College with
a degree in what in 1971?
A: Education
After graduating college, she taught school for how
long?
A: A year.
She had worked a total of 20 jobs by the time she was
how old?
A: 23, including a side job renting apartments in New York City.
While she was a waitress, her boyfriend convinced her
to do what?
A: Work for a real estate company.
She wanted to be her own boss, and in 1973, while
working as a receptionist for the Giffuni Brothers' real estate company in
New York City, co-founded what?
A: The Corcoran-Simonè with her boyfriend, who loaned $1,000.
She split from her boyfriend seven years later after he
told her what?
A: He was going to marry her secretary and she then formed her own firm, The
Corcoran Group.
In 2001, Corcoran sold her business to NRT for how
much?
A: $66 million.