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Golden handcuffs are a way to keep a key person at a company through massive payouts. For example the tumblr deal netted the CEO a massive golden handcuff of ~81 million to stay til 2017. [1]

[1] - http://news.sky.com/story/1126468/yahoo-tumblr-founder-nets-...




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