The ceo of tiktok knows he has a trust problem – Breaking News & Latest Updates 2026
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The CEO of TikTok knows he has a trust problem.

That was the message from Shou Chew, who runs TikTok for its Chinese parent company ByteDance, at the Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco I’m attending.

During a rare public conversation today with LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, Chew said he’s focused on building “technical solutions” to concerns like what user data TikTok does or doesn’t share with China:

We realize that we are a new and young company. The only way that we’re going to build trust in this country and all over the world is to be very consistent with our actions over a long period of time.

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