And young is when you are in your early teens, I think he was a junior in college when this happened and his frontal cortex should have been fully developed by then.
Although it may give some positive press - the reality is that he was a young adult when he said it and he simply can't take it back. We don't need to pretend he's some kind of saint. This fake modesty is seriously nonsense. Zuck is a competitor and a winner and does what is necessary. That's it.