No. Identify the actual application and follow the applicable official process. Corporate transfer terms include a new background check and do not automatically approve a replacement.
Treat the new person as an individual
A shared employer or similar duties do not establish the replacement’s eligibility. Do not reuse an earlier person’s outcome as the new applicant’s decision.
The Gold Card is described on the official U.S. government program page as a process involving a nonrefundable processing fee, government vetting and a gift to the United States, leading for eligible applicants to permanent residence through an existing employment-based classification subject to visa availability. Under the current official framework, a corporate sponsor applies for an employee, pays the per-employee processing fee and gift, and the sponsored employee may receive lawful permanent resident status through EB-1 or EB-2 if otherwise eligible, admissible, and a visa is available. The published Gold Card framework is built around a financial transfer of a different character, and the analysis that follows is correspondingly different: what exactly is transferred, to whom, on what terms, what it entitles the payer to, and what happens if the arrangement changes.