[13][14] In 2017, he joined the German-American Atlantik-Brücke[15] and in 2023, he was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum[16] and invited to participate as a delegate in the 54th Annual Meeting in Davos.

[18] Baier-Lentz grew up as a first-generation high school graduate in rural Germany[19] and spent his teenage years playing Blizzard Entertainment's multiplayer action role-playing game Diablo II, culminating in a global #1 ranking among 13 million active players in 2003.

[4] He used a combination of proceeds from virtual goods sales[19][20] and German national academic merit scholarships from Studienstiftung and DAAD to help finance his undergraduate and graduate studies.

[21] After starting his career as a data scientist at IBM,[1] Baier-Lentz joined Goldman Sachs as an investment banker, and founded and led the firm's global gaming practice.

[30] In his role as Young Global Leader and Davos delegate, Baier-Lentz advises the World Economic Forum on gaming, extended reality, governance aspects of artificial intelligence, and the convergence of frontier technologies.