Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran: Biography at a Glance

Barbara Corcoran is the founder of the five-billion-dollar real estate business, The Corcoran Group.
Best known as a "Shark" on ABC's Emmy Award-winning show Shark Tank, Barbara is also the host of top business channel on Patreon, Barbara in Your Pocket.
She is also a frequent small business and real estate contributor on every major network.
Barbara is the author of the bestselling, Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business, where she shares her inspiring live story and dishes out advice on building a business.
Barbara is sought-after for her motivational approach to discussing topics including entrepreneurship, brand building, and real estate.

Media

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Biography

Barbara Corcoran’s credits include straight D’s in high school and college and 20 jobs by the time she turned 23. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country: She borrowed $1,000 and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next 25 years, Barbara would parlay that $1,000 loan into a $5 billion real estate business, building the largest and best-known brand in the business.

Corcoran is the author of the best seller Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business! and host of top business channel on Patreon, Barbara in Your Pocket.

Corcoran is a motivational and inspirational speaker. She is a frequent small business and real estate contributor on every major network. Corcoran has been an investor/Shark for the past ten seasons on ABC’s four-time Emmy award-winning show, Shark Tank, investing in over 80 businesses to date.

Topics

Barbara’s Rag to Riches Story

With straight D’s in high school and college plus 20 jobs by the time she turned 23, Barbara’s beginnings may have seemed lackluster, but it was her next job that would catapult her to meteoric success. In this incredibly motivational and informative talk, Barbara brings us along her journey from waitress, to real estate mogul to television personality and investor. She gives audiences an inside look at how she started a small real estate company with only $1,000 and turned it into a $5 billion dollar business, and the successes and failures along the way.

Behind The Scenes

Take a deep dive behind the scenes of Shark Tank and get your most riveting questions answered. Do the Sharks invest their own money? What are the traits of successful entrepreneurs? What makes a business flop? What is Kevin really like? Barbara spills all the secrets of the tank in this candid and captivating presentation and reveals never before scene photos of what it’s really like in the entrepreneurial waters.

A Conversation with Barbara Corcoran

Turn the tables on Barbara in this suped-up Q&A session. Barbara puts herself in the hot seat by answering your questions on entrepreneurship, building a successful business, what it’s like to be on Shark Tank and more. Your very own company executive is invited to lead this engrossing discussion.

Leadership Workshop

Highly motivating and sensationally entertaining, Barbara shares her strategies to get your team pumped up and moving forward with new ideas and fresh solutions. Barbara’s unique and practical lessons help salespeople, managers and business owners lead their enterprises to the next level.

A few lessons she can touch on are listed here: