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Orianna Rosa Royle

A tidy wallet enticed Barbara Corcoran to hire her business partner and longtime president of The Corcoran Group

ABC's "Shark Tank" Barbara Corcoran standing up and pointing (Credit: Christopher Willard via Getty Images—Getty Images)

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.

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