
A restaurant critic, a college roommate, and an Alexa birthday gift helped set Max Child on the path to voice games. Now the Volley co-founder is taking that experiment to the television under a new name: Weekend.

The Harvard junior moves between a $13 million student-run business, the Crimson sports desk, ESPN+ sidelines and nonfiction film. Her useful trick is not choosing one lane - it is learning what each lane can teach the others.