BARBARA CORCORAN SHARK TANK

When Corcoran, 68, sold off her real estate firm, the Corcoran Group, in 2001, she reached a milestone that leads many entrepreneurs to call it quits. Seven years later, producers for Shark Tank came knocking. Today, she’s called on to appear at more events than ever before, while raising the family she and her husband started after she’d spent years hunkered down in the cutthroat real estate world.

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