
Vico Puentes
Founder of TOMO mags, an independent magazine and art book shop in Austin, Texas, and a Texas-based media entrepreneur who has appeared on Monocle's The Globalist.
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Sep 12, 2026
The rebirth of the American newsstand
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3:24
I mean, tell us a bit more about the neighborhood, the location for those perhaps who never came to Austin, even though I really want to go to Austin now.

Vico PuentesGUEST
So if everyone is telling me you should open in this part of town, I start asking why and I start asking where are not people going and is there an opportunity there? So we happen to be downtown and our downtown has evolved in the last few years and it's kind of gaining back the same traction that it had pre-COVID.

Vico PuentesGUEST
A lot of working, a lot more living, And I went into a Blanc that really was very quiet.

Vico PuentesGUEST
And there was an art gallery that is three doors down from me that it's period and the type of shows.

Vico PuentesGUEST
And Philip, who is the owner of the gallery, has a similar point of view where we are local, but we think globally and we bring it back to local.
The rebirth of the American newsstand
3:35
3:55
4:03
4:11
3:24
I mean, tell us a bit more about the neighborhood, the location for those perhaps who never came to Austin, even though I really want to go to Austin now.

Vico PuentesGUEST
So if everyone is telling me you should open in this part of town, I start asking why and I start asking where are not people going and is there an opportunity there? So we happen to be downtown and our downtown has evolved in the last few years and it's kind of gaining back the same traction that it had pre-COVID.

Vico PuentesGUEST
A lot of working, a lot more living, And I went into a Blanc that really was very quiet.

Vico PuentesGUEST
And there was an art gallery that is three doors down from me that it's period and the type of shows.

Vico PuentesGUEST
And Philip, who is the owner of the gallery, has a similar point of view where we are local, but we think globally and we bring it back to local.