Screentime: The Venture Investor Who Runs Through Antarctica in Silence
Lightspeed’s newest gaming investor, Moritz Baier-Lentz, is always wired in—except when he’s running marathons on every continent.
Out of the 13 million Diablo II players, Lightspeed Venture Partners investor Moritz Baier-Lentz was No. 1. During his peak gamer years—2001 to 2005—Baier-Lentz was playing the action role-playing game 6 to 8 hours a day, crushing his competitors. It was a lucrative gig: “I traded the digital swords and armor that I earned in-game to afford my college tuition,” he said.
In 2015, after graduating from Stanford Business School, he decided to spin his gaming career into a business one. He founded Goldman Sachs’ gaming division before leaving in 2020 to join Bitkraft Ventures, leading investments in companies like Inworld AI and Horizon Blockchain Games.
Baier-Lentz, who joined Lightspeed in late 2022 to lead the firm’s gaming investments, takes us through his phone use, from how he logs workouts (he’s running a marathon in Antarctica) to how his home screen reminds him of a fateful yoga session.