
Barbara Corcoran’s business partner and longtime president of the Corcoran Group, Esther Kaplan, very nearly didn’t get hired after a not-so-great first impression—but a tidy wallet changed the Shark Tank star's mind.
It was 1973 and Corcoran desperately needed workers to join her budding real estate company. “But I had little to offer, and good people were really hard to get,” the 74-year-old millionaire investor and real estate entrepreneur revealed in a recent TikTok video.