No. Apply the actual worker definition and job framework. The investor, spouse, sons and daughters and nonimmigrants are excluded from qualifying workers.
Identify the relevant evidence
Do not infer qualifying status from a name, title or payment record alone. Use the actual worker and position information required by the applicable framework.
In a regional-centre project the economic model can count indirect and induced jobs; in a direct case only the new commercial enterprise's own full-time employees count, so the machine shop must reach ten qualifying positions itself. A dividend is a lawful source of funds when the retained earnings behind it are documented with financial statements, tax filings and the resolution declaring it, and the payment can be traced into the investor's account and on to the enterprise. The capital must stay at risk for the period the law requires, the enterprise must create the required jobs, the investor must continue in management or policy formulation, and permanent residence carries its own obligations that extended absences can undermine.