[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fKBz7VLolWl-O-YrslaFJQO1f6RZUFDYETK6lxSc2jXA":3,"$fnCfppl_odwYv1SseedNCrhIPwkqEdqzupl_Oia5T9Bg":120,"$fFTEK4ViQUEdys7JvdYd2uhBTS6Zgm6feAQPKOnM19qo":122},{"celebrity":4},{"heroImage":5,"physicalAppearance":7,"netWorth":8,"_id":10,"slug":11,"bio":12,"birthplace":13,"breakthrough":14,"careerTimeline":15,"category":55,"collaborators":56,"controversies":61,"country":62,"createdAt":63,"dob":64,"earlyLife":65,"education":66,"faqs":67,"favorites":83,"fullName":84,"gallery":85,"hitFlop":86,"lastUpdated":92,"latestNews":93,"lifestyle":94,"metaDescription":95,"mostFamousRole":96,"name":97,"nationality":98,"quickFacts":99,"relationships":104,"secondaryCategories":105,"socialMedia":108,"sources":109,"status":111,"tagline":112,"tags":113,"updatedAt":116,"verified":117,"yearsActive":118,"kind":119},{"url":6,"alt":6,"caption":6,"credit":6},"",{"height":6,"weight":6,"eyeColor":6,"hairColor":6,"source":6},{"amount":6,"currency":9,"asOf":6,"source":6},"USD","6af281338b1f5a8eabbbb3df","barbara-corcoran","Barbara Corcoran grew up as the second of 10 children in Edgewater, New Jersey, and did badly at school. Teachers and classmates called her the \"dumb kid\". She later learned she had dyslexia, and she has said the bullying pushed her to work harder. She graduated from Leonia High School as a D student and went on to earn an education degree at St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971.\n\nAfter graduating she taught for a year, then drifted through jobs. By 23 she had held about 20 of them, including waitressing and renting out apartments in New York City. In 1973, while working as a receptionist at a real estate company, she co-founded a firm called The Corcoran-Simonè, funded by a $1,000 loan. They split seven years later and she formed her own company, The Corcoran Group. In the mid-1970s she also began publishing The Corcoran Report, a newsletter on New York City real estate trends.\n\nIn 2001 she sold The Corcoran Group to NRT for $66 million. She has since written books, including Use What You've Got (2003) and Shark Tales (2011), and has written columns for several publications.\n\nCorcoran is best known as an original Shark on ABC's Shark Tank, where entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to a panel of investors. Wikipedia lists her as a main Shark in every season, including the current season 18. As of January 2023 she had made 130 deals on the show. The largest was $350,000 for 40% of Coverplay. Wikipedia also credits a 2017 deal with The Comfy, an oversized wearable blanket, with turning her $50,000 into $468 million in three years before she was bought out. Her investment firm, now called Forefront Venture Partners and formerly Barbara Corcoran Venture Partners, invests in early-stage companies that already have revenue.","Edgewater, New Jersey, USA","Founding The Corcoran Group, a New York City real estate brokerage",[16,21,25,30,34,38,42,47,51],{"year":17,"title":18,"type":19,"note":20},1971,"Graduates from St. Thomas Aquinas College","milestone","She earned a degree in education.",{"year":22,"title":23,"type":19,"note":24},1973,"Co-founds The Corcoran-Simonè","She started the real estate firm with a $1,000 loan.",{"year":26,"title":27,"type":28,"note":29},1975,"Starts The Corcoran Report newsletter","project","Wikipedia dates this to the mid-1970s and gives no exact year.",{"year":31,"title":32,"type":19,"note":33},1980,"Forms The Corcoran Group","Wikipedia says she split from her partner seven years after founding the first firm and then started her own company.",{"year":35,"title":36,"type":19,"note":37},2001,"Sells The Corcoran Group to NRT","The sale price was $66 million.",{"year":39,"title":40,"type":28,"note":41},2003,"Publishes her first book, Use What You've Got","Co-written with Bruce Littlefield and published by Penguin.",{"year":43,"title":44,"type":45,"note":46},2009,"Joins Shark Tank as an original Shark","debut","Wikipedia lists her as a main Shark in every season through season 18.",{"year":48,"title":49,"type":28,"note":50},2011,"Publishes Shark Tales","Co-written with Bruce Littlefield.",{"year":52,"title":53,"type":19,"note":54},2017,"The Comfy investment on Shark Tank","Wikipedia says her $50,000 became $468 million in three years before she was bought out.","Shark Tank investor",[57],{"image":6,"imageCredit":6,"name":58,"role":59,"note":60,"slug":6},"Bruce Littlefield","writer","Co-author of Use What You've Got and Shark Tales.",[],"USA","2026-11-10T02:28:03.159Z","10 March 1949","Wikipedia says Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, into a working-class Irish-Catholic family. She struggled in school, started high school at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, failed several courses in her first year and moved to Leonia High School, where she graduated. She earned an education degree at St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971, and says she did better there.","Graduated from Leonia High School, then earned a degree in education from St. Thomas Aquinas College in 1971 (per Wikipedia)",[68,71,74,77,80],{"question":69,"answer":70},"How old is Barbara Corcoran?","Barbara Corcoran was born on 10 March 1949, according to Wikipedia.",{"question":72,"answer":73},"How much did Barbara Corcoran sell The Corcoran Group for?","She sold it to NRT for $66 million in 2001, according to Wikipedia.",{"question":75,"answer":76},"Is Barbara Corcoran an original Shark on Shark Tank?","Yes. Wikipedia describes her as an original Shark, and its Shark Tank page lists her as a main Shark in every season through season 18.",{"question":78,"answer":79},"What was Barbara Corcoran's biggest deal on Shark Tank?","Wikipedia says that as of January 2023 the largest was a $350,000 investment for 40% of Coverplay.",{"question":81,"answer":82},"What is Barbara Corcoran's net worth?","We do not publish a figure. The numbers we found online came from low-quality sites with no clear source, so we left it out.",[],"Barbara Ann Corcoran",[],[87],{"title":88,"year":52,"verdict":89,"metric":90,"source":91},"The Comfy (Shark Tank investment)","hit","Wikipedia says her $50,000 investment became $468 million in three years, and she was then bought out. We have not checked this figure against another source.","https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FBarbara_Corcoran","2026-11-10T06:38:48.750Z",[],[],"Barbara Corcoran: New York real estate founder who sold The Corcoran Group for $66 million and is a Shark on Shark Tank. Career timeline and sources.","One of the Sharks on ABC's Shark Tank","Barbara Corcoran","American",[100,101,102,103],"Born 10 March 1949 in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second of 10 children, according to Wikipedia.","Built The Corcoran Group into a New York real estate brokerage and sold it to NRT for $66 million in 2001.","An original Shark on Shark Tank. Wikipedia lists her as a main Shark in every season through season 18.","As of January 2023 she had made 130 deals on the show. The largest was $350,000 for 40% of Coverplay (per Wikipedia).",[],[106,107],"Real estate","Investor",[],[91,110],"https:\u002F\u002Fen.wikipedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FShark_Tank","published","New York real estate founder who sold The Corcoran Group for $66 million and has been a Shark on Shark Tank since the show began.",[114,115,62,106],"Shark Tank","Shark Tank US","2026-11-10T06:32:14.055Z",false,"1973-Present","person",{"celebrities":121},[],{"asOf":123,"series":124},null,[]]