Corcoran (second from left) has been on Shark Tank for 14 seasons.
Barbara Corcoran is a true rags-to-riches legend. In college, she had straight Ds, and by the time she turned 23, she’d been through 20 jobs.
Undeterred, she borrowed US$1,000 (RM4,460 today) and started a minuscule real estate company in New York in the United States, the Corcoran Group, which she eventually sold in 2001 for US$66mil (RM294.4mil). “All my best successes come on the heels of failure,” she says.
